Colonel Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Works
• Views of Kabul and environs from pictures taken by the photograph school of the Corps of Bengal Sappers and Miners (1881) • Two Indian Campaigns in 1857-58 (1896) • Biographical notices of officers of the Royal (Bengal) engineers (1900) • Reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny (1857–58) and Afghanistan (1879) (1916) ==References and sources==