Image: William Alexander Kerr
Description: William Alexander Kerr (Lieutenant). 24Th Bombay Native Infantry. The 27th Bombay N.I. mutinied in July, 1857, and a large body of them made for the stronghold of Kolapore, midway between Belgaum and Satara. They were quickly followed up for eighty miles by Lieutenant Kerr, then Adjutant of the Southern Mahratta Horse. On reaching the mutineers’ place of defence, he, on the 9th, with a few of his men, made a dash at the gate and broke it down. All within it were either killed, wounded or captured, a result due to his heroic dash and bravery. The mutiny was thus practically at one stroke stamped out on the Malabar coast. Had there been more men of such calibre at some of the military stations in India at that time, the Mutiny would probably have been checked at its outbreak and might never have assumed such awful proportions in so short a time.
Title: William Alexander Kerr
Credit: The history of the Victoria Cross : being an account of the 520 acts of bravery for which the decoration has been awarded, and portraits of 392 recipients by Wilkins, Philip A. (Philip Aveling) Publication date 1904 https://archive.org/details/historyofvictori0000phil/page/83/mode/1up
Author: Lowestoft Broughton
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