2nd Lieutenant Jimmy Hills V.C., Be. H.A.
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Photograph of a Silk Painting commissioned by Miles Macnair and created by an Udiapur Art School. It depicts 2nd Lt. Jimmy Hills of the Bengal Horse Artillery winning his V.C. on a ridge outside Delhi in 1857 during the Siege of that City.

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2nd Lieutenant Jimmy Hills V.C. was the brother of Miles Macnair's great-grandmother and son of James Hills, Indigo Planter of Assam. He went on to become Lieutenant-General Sir James Hill-Johnes GCB (who added the second surname when he married Betha Jones, daughter of Judge Johnes of Dolaucothy, Carmarthenshire)
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