Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24544/pages/272. Captain Andrew Scott, Bengal Staff Corps. On 26th July 1877 at Quetta, India, Captain Scott was on duty at the regimental parade ground in the evening when he heard that British Officers were being killed and immediately rushed to the rescue. He found one lieutenant cut down and another hard pressed and wounded but being protected by a sepoy. Captain Scott bayoneted two of the assailants and closed with a third, who fell with him to the ground and was killed by the sepoys of the regiment. This action saved the life of the wounded lieutenant.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24544/pages/272. Captain Andrew Scott, Bengal Staff Corps. On 26th July 1877 at Quetta, India, Captain Scott was on duty at the regimental parade ground in the evening when he heard that British Officers were being killed and immediately rushed to the rescue. He found one lieutenant cut down and another hard pressed and wounded but being protected by a sepoy. Captain Scott bayoneted two of the assailants and closed with a third, who fell with him to the ground and was killed by the sepoys of the regiment. This action saved the life of the wounded lieutenant.