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Oatcake tin, with coloured scenes of incidents which led to winning the Victoria Cross

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Oatcake tin, with coloured scenes of incidents which led to winning the Victoria Cross
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This scene shows Surgeon Jee dressing the wound of a fallen Highland soldier whilst under fire at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, 25-26 September 1857.

The citation for this award of the V.C., in the London Gazette of 9 November 1860, said that Jee, 'by great exertion and devoted exposure, attended to the large number of men wounded in the charge'.

Painted by Hudson Scott, Carlisle.

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