[Illustration: GENERAL FRASER.
_From a Photo. by Chancellor, Dublin._]
"The Army List makes no allusion to the gallant way in which Major
Charles Craufurd Fraser, of the 7th Hussars, won the Victoria
Cross--that coveted and hardly-won decoration which, to the honour of
England, graces not a few of the breasts of humble privates as well as
generals. The London _Gazette_, however, tells us that the Victoria
Cross was awarded to Charles Craufurd Fraser 'for conspicuous and cool
gallantry on the 31st December, 1858, in having volunteered, at great
personal risk, and under a sharp fire of musketry, to swim to the rescue
of Captain Stisted and some men of the 7th Hussars, who were in imminent
danger of being drowned in the River Raptee, while in pursuit of the
rebels. Major Fraser succeeded in this gallant service, although at the
time partially disabled, not having recovered from a severe wound
received while leading a squadron in a charge against some fanatics in
the action of Nawabgunge on the 13th of June, 1858.'"