The first Jew to be awarded England's Victoria Cross was Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass, 34th Poona Horse. The award was made posthumously on 25 November 1914. http://www.sephardim.com/html/lore.html Men from Poona Horse were a part of Gen. Burrows's brigade that was annihilated near Kandahar in 1880. A BLOW BY THE AFGHANS; A BRITISH BRIGADE NEARLY ANNIHILATED. July 29, 1880, Wednesday http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B03E2DB143FEE3ABC4151DFB166838B699FDE&oref=slogin 250 Poona Horsemen in the Battle of Meeanee, 17th February 1843 (The Conquest of Scinde, 1843) http://www.athelstane.co.uk/kingston/soldiers/sldrs02.htm --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India