July 1892- Statement Published in London Gazette after death of British Officers while invading Hunza

The Official Record of London Gazette one of the official journals of record of the British government  published in  july 12 1992 about death of Two British Officers Captain Fenton, Jhon Aylmer    while invading Hunza and Nager in December 2 and 3, 1891,

December 2 and 3, 1891 : Hunza Valley
In front of Nilt Fort about 1 fur. and attacked – fort only approachable by a narrow strip of cultivated land. …the 5th Gurkhas supported by my battalion crept forward under shelter of rocks and close under cliff. We got a very warm fire and one or two Gurkhas were hit and one man of my battalion was killed. …we lay for a long time among the rocks – and then suddenly we got news that [the] 5th Gurkhas had got into the ditch and thence into the fort. We then pushed up, receiving a few shots from loopholes, got through the abatis, and down into a water course, and into the fort door, which had been blown in by Aylmer with gun cotton.

Captain Fenton Aylmer was awarded the Victoria Cross for his role at Nilt, recorded here in the London Gazette:


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