Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. Victorian issue for Europeans serving with the Indian Army (Sergt Major J Grant Sappers & Miners G.O.C.C. 4th Decr 1877) Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. Victorian issue for Europeans serving with the Indian Army (Sergt Major J Grant Sappers & Miners G.O.C.C. 4th Decr 1877) Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. Victorian issue for Europeans serving with the Indian Army (Sergt Major J Grant Sappers & Miners G.O.C.C. 4th Decr 1877) Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. Victorian issue for Europeans serving with the Indian Army (Sergt Major J Grant Sappers & Miners G.O.C.C. 4th Decr 1877) Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. Victorian issue for Europeans serving with the Indian Army (Sergt Major J Grant Sappers & Miners G.O.C.C. 4th Decr 1877)

Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. Victorian issue for Europeans serving with the Indian Army (Sergt Major J Grant Sappers & Miners G.O.C.C. 4th Decr 1877)

Medal verification: The medal awarded per published announcement in General Orders of the Commander in Chief (India) dated 4 December 1877

The below following obituary to Lieutenant James Grant, Bengal Sappers & Miners, was published in the Banffshire Journal, issue of, 3 April 1888:

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DEATH OF HON. LIEUT JAMES GRANT

Our obituary contains a record of the death of Hon. Lieut. James Grant who died at Roorkie (sp) India, on the 2nd March last. Mr. Grant's career and success in life were somewhat remarkable, and formed an excellent example of courage and perseverance in surmounting the disadvantages of humble origin and honest poverty. His father, John Grant, farm manager at Orton, and his mother both died, leaving a family of five, all under ten years of age - James being the second born. In the Elgin Institution he received his education, and he afterwards served his apprenticeship with Mr. P. Macbean, at one time saddler in Elgin. But a sedentary life had no charms for him, and so he enlisted as a soldier in the service of the East India Company. He continued there until the Company's military power terminated in 1858, when he volunteered into the Bengal Sappers & Miners. His promotion from the outset was steady and uniterrupted, as was his devotion and faithfulness to the service he had chosen for a profession in life. His death took place while he was in active employment as an officer in the service of the Queen, and while it may be said he was yet in the prime of life, for his age was only some fifty-four years. He is survived by a widow - sister of Mr. James Macbeth, house-carpenter in Elgin - and by six of a family, the whole of whom are at present in Elgin receiving their education

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Note: Contrary to what was published in the obituary, the Widow of James Grant, was Mary Ann Grant (nee Lawson), daughter of Joseph Brooks, who was a widow when, Staff Sergeant James Grant of the Sappers & Miners married her at Roorkee, India, on, 10 December 1868

James Grant, son of John Grant (Farm Manager) & Jean Grant (nee Macbeth) was a native of the parish of Speymouth, near Fochabers, Elginshire (now Moray), Scotland, where he was born on, 11 May 1837. After being orphaned at an early age, James was resident & educated at Anderson's Institution, Elgin, where in the, 1851 National Census for Scotland, he is recorded resident (with his other orphaned siblings) at The Elgin Institution For The Support Of Old Age And Education Of Youth

Condition: Toned about EF

Code: 22300