CHITRAL AND THE N.W. FRONTIER CAMPAIGN. 468 saved the column by stopping the pursuit, and De Brett received the Victoria Cross.

Of the three wounded officers who were brought into Dattakhel, only one survived— Lieutenant C. L. S. Seton-Browne, of the ist Punjaub Infantry. The five others who had marched with him to Maizar were all dead. Seton-Browne was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. It was also granted to Lieu-Such an act of treachery on the part of the tribes could not be allowed to go unpunished. Major-GeneralG.Corrie Bird, thenin command of the Punjaub Frontier Force, was ordered to march with two brigades into the Tochi Valley and exact full reparation for the outrage. The Tochi FieldForce, which assembled at Bannu (otherwise known as Edwardesabad), was composed of the following troops:— AN INCIDENT IN THE TOCHI VALLEY EXPEDITION : AN ATTACK ON THB MAIL CARTS.

tenant Higginson, but he did not live to receive it. The brave Narayan Singh was given the Order of British India and the title of Subadar, and the Order of Merit was given to the other native officers and manyof the sepoys. Subadar Sundar Singh and several others of the dead native soldiers were also gazetted with this Order, so that their widows might have an increased pension. It was a long list of honours, but they were thoroughly well deserved; for as the Commander-in-Chief in India declared in an official despatch :" The action was a deedof arms second to none in the annals of the British army."

ist Brigade.— Colonel Egerton(of the Guides). Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders;ist Sikhs; ist Punjaub Infantry ;33rd Punjaub Infantry; Peshawur Mountain Battery (sixguns).

2nd Brigade.— Brigadier - General W. P. Symons. 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade ; 14th Sikhs ; 25th Punjaub Infantry ;No. 6 (Bombay) Mountain Battery (four guns).

For cavalry General Corrie Bird had two squadronsof the ist Punjaub Cavalry, alreadyin the Tochi Valley;and for engineers a company of Bombay Sappers and Miners were ordered to join the expedition.

At first sight this looks a very large force for