Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. GV first issue (4518 C. Sjt: J. Grubb. R. Scots. Fus.)

Medal verification: The award of the Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal to 4518 Colour-Sergeant John Grubb, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was authorised per Army Order No 286 issued in October 1912. The recipient was also prior awarded the India General Service Medal 1895, with clasp 'Punjab Frontier 1897-98', reference the respective campaign medal roll of 1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers (WO 100/87)

Funeral with full Military Honours: The Scotsman newspaper issue of 26 August 1914, contained the below following article:

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MILITARY FUNERAL IN STIRLING

Yesterday morning the remains of Colour Sergeant John Grubb, drill-instructor of "C" Company (Stewarton), 4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, were borne from Stirling Royal Infirmary to the railway station for removal to Blairgowrie for internment. The obsequies were carried out with military honours, the coffin, covered with the Union Jack, being conveyed on a gun-carriage drawn by six horses. Colour-Sergeant Grubb was 38 years of age, and was within a month or two of completing 21 years service in the Army. Deceased, who is survived by a widow, served in the Tirah campaign, and in South Africa, and he had the good conduct medal. A detachment of the battalion, under Captain Logan, followed the cortege to the station, and eight sergeants carried the coffin shoulder-high to the train. Many beautiful wreaths were sent by his officers and comrades.

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John Grubb, son John Grubb & Grubb, was a native of, Rattay, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, where he was born in 1876. Prior to joining the British Army John had been employed as a 'Flax Millworker'. John enlisted in the British Army in, February 1894, and was posted to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, subsequently serving with the 1st Battalion on the Regiment on the North West Frontier of India, 1897-98 (awarded medal with clasp 'Punjab Frontier 1897-98'), and also served in South Africa from 1910. By the time of the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914, John was serving as a Drill-Instructor with "C" Company, 4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, which unit was located at Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland. John Grubb is recorded to have died due to 'sudden' ill-health, at Stirling Infirmary, on 22 August 1914. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jane Robertson Grubb (nee Thom) , who he had married at Rattray, Scotland, in 1906, and who latterly resided at, 63 Street, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland

The life and service of Colour-Sergeant John Grubb, is commemorated in perpetuity on a Commonwealth War Grave memorial flagstone located at, Rattray Parish Churchyard, nr Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland

Condition: GVF

Code: 22728