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

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Postcard of Oatcake tin, with coloured scenes of incidents which led to winning the Victoria Cross.
000-000-100-246-C
© National Museums Scotland

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

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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Online ID: 000-000-100-246-C
Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
Project: 0207: The Thistle at War
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Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1932.646
Date: 1857-80
26 - 26 September 1857
Material: Tin; with coloured embossed scenes
Dimensions: 134 mm H x 140 mm W x 85 mm D
What: Oatcake tin
Subject: Miscellanea
Who:
Where: India, Lucknow (where incident took place)
Event: Victoria Cross
Description: Tin for oatcakes, with coloured, embossed scenes of incidents of the winning of the Victoria Cross, 1856 - 1880.
References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Scottish soldier. Manchester: Archive Publications in association with the National Museums of Scotland, 1987 
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