Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-01-21
YALOR THAT IS WINNING
THE VICTORIA CROSS.
The Retreat.Be-Damned BugIer Boy of EIandsIaagte
How the Cross is Given When Earned.

contents itself with naming five. and
then says breathlessly, 'etc., ETC."
Bob's Other Decorations.
In the picture sees the Generals
six medals in a row, and three orders
beneath them OF the medals, follow
ing from the left to right, the first
is the Victoria Cross; the second, the
India Mutiny decoration, with three
bars, for Delhi, one for Lucknow;
and one for the relief of Lucknow;
the third is the India medal for 1854,
with three clasps-for Burmah, UNI
beylah and Looshal, meaning that
this officer distinguished himself
afresh in each of these; the fourth
is the Abyssinian medal; the fifth,
the Afghan. and the sixth that Of
Kabul-Kandahar, in recognition of
his remarkable and victorious battle
with Ayub Khan. The large decora-
tions beneath are orders-two above
and one below. Those above, again
from left to right, are the Order Of
the Bath and the Star of India, that
below, the Order of the Indian Empire.
Two Other Big ". C.'s.
General Sir Redvers Butler is an
other Victoria Cross man. His decor
alton was granted to him for saving
three lives in a retreat after a bat
tie with the Zulus. He was then a
captain and brevet lieutenant col
onel. The Zulus were pressing the
British troops hard, when an officers
horse was killed and its rider left in
fearful danger. Butler galloped back,
took the officer up behind him and
carried him to a place of safety. Re-
turning, he found a young lieutenant
in precisely the same fix, and he did
the trick owe again. When he got
back a troopers animal had just fall
en-, exhausted, and for the third time
Buffers horse carried a double load,
and Butler exposed himself to the
enemy to saw a comrade, although
the Zulus were not a hundred yards
away.
Sir George White, SO long bottled
up" in Ladysmith, won the Victoria
Cross under Lord Roberts in Afghan
istan, by charging a fortified hill and
taking it, backed by only a few
men. At this time he was a major in
the famous Gordon Highlanders.
They advanced under a racking fire,
and on reaching the top of the slope
found themselves outnumbered ten to
one. Quick as a wink White grabbed
a rifle from one Of his men and shot
the Afghan chief. His followers be-
came demoralized, and the Gordons
routed them. Later in the same
campaign in the march to Kandahar,
Roberts named White a second time
in his dispatches for having rushed
on ahead of his men and captured a
gun. He ended by succeeding his SUI
perior officer in becoming Command
er-in-Chief in India.
How the Cross IL Bestowed.
/ asked the officer in charge of the
medal branch of the wal office how a
Victoria Cross was obtained after it
had been won:
why, there isn't as much red tape
about it as you would fancy" he said.
The action as a reward for which the
cross is given must be performed in
the presence of the enemy" and 1t is
desirable that the superior officer of
the man who distinguished himself
should have witnessed it. 1t happens
sometimes, however, that no officer is
present, and in a case like that the
candidate must prove by his compan-
ions that he really did do what he as
serts that he did. When his immedi-
ate superior is satisfied that he ought
to be rewarded he writes an account Of
the business and hands it to the officer
in command of the forces and he in
dorses< the papers and sends them on
to the War Office. Here they are laid