Brigadier General H Macpherson with staff outside their quarters, at the Mill, Jellalabad, 1879 (c)

Photograph, 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880), 1879 (c).

Brigadier General (later Lieutenant General Sir) Herbert Taylor Macpherson (1827-1886) commanded the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division during the 2nd Afghan War (1878-1880). Macpherson was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). He went on to command the Indian contingent in the Egyptian War (1882) but died of fever during the 3rd Burma War in 1886 and was buried in Rangoon.

From an album of 61 photographs, compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Archibald Mercer (1847-1923), 4th Gurkha Regiment.