Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Dighton MacNaghten Probyn NPG D40763

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Sydney Prior Hall

Probyn was awarded the VC by Queen Victoria in 1858, the first recipient of the award to be recognised for acts of bravery during the Indian Mutiny. Probyn was at Jullundur, the station of his parent regiment, the 6th Bengal Light Cavalry, when the Mutiny broke out in May 1857. His acts of bravery were reported in The London Gazette on 18 June 1858: 'At the battle of Agra, when his squadron charged the rebel infantry, he was some time separated from his men, and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.