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VC175 Valentine Munbee McMaster
BORN 16 May 1834
DIED 22 January 1872 AGE 37
VC Won 25 September 1857 AGE 23
Place VC Won Relief of Lucknow
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Valentine Munbee McMaster No.
VC Issue No. 175 Awards VC
Regiment 78th Regiment
Later Seaforth Highlanders
Now 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Assistant Surgeon
Rank End Of Career Surgeon
Place Of Birth Trichinopoly, India
Place Of Death Belfast, Northern Ireland
Buried/Location Ashes Belfast City Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Plot 2, Grave 318
Gazetted 18 June 1858
VC Presented 1858, GOC Bombay, Lieutenant-General Sir H Somerset, Bombay, India
Memorials
Headstone, Belfast City Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Display at National War Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
Marble plaque at St Columbus Cathedral, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Named on Londonderry War Memorial, Northern Ireland
P Plaque at National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
His widow went on to marry 331 Campbell Douglas
VC Held By
Scottish United Services Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
