'Sitwell, killed at Kohat', 1849 (c)

Photograph by Surgeon John McCosh (1805-1885), Bengal Army, 1849 (c).

Ensign William Henry Sitwell (1829-1850), 31st Bengal Native Infantry, was killed in action against the Afridis in the Kohat Pass on 12 February 1850. He was serving with a punitive expedition against the local tribesmen after they had attacked a party working on the road near Kohat. Brigadier-General Sir Colin Campbell's force destroyed several villages, but the Afridis only came to terms after a new subsidy was negotiated in November 1850.

From an album of 310 photographs taken by Surgeon John McCosh, 1848-1853.