Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1901 — How He Won His Spurs. [ARTICLE]

How He Won His Spurs.

Sir Dighton Probyn is well known as comptroller and treasurer to the Prince of Wales. Sir Dighton is now In his 67th year, but is still erect and soldierly in his bearing. He was a major general when he entered the prince’s service in 1872, and had put behind him a great deal of very excellent military service. During the Indian mutiny alone he was seven times mentioned in dispatches, and won the Victoria Cross, besides being thanked by the governor general. It was at Agra that he won his V. C. He was separated from his men and beset by six of the enemy, three of whom he cut down with his own sword. Then he saw a prominent standard, and sailed out single-handed, slew the bearer, and brought back the flag under a perfect hall of grapeshot and bullets.