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BORN 13 March 1834
DIED 28 March 1859 AGE 25
VC Won 28 September 1857 AGE 23
Place VC Won Bolundshadur
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Robert Blair No.
VC Issue No. 186 Awards VC
Regiment 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) attached to the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
Later
Now Queen's Dragoon Guards
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Aventoun, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
Place Of Death Cawnpore, India
Buried/Location Ashes Old British Cemetery, Cawnpore (Kanpur), Uttar Pradesh, India
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Unmarked grave Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 18 June 1858
VC Presented 02 August 1858 by Queen Victoria,southsea common, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Memorials
Plaque at Covenater's Prison Section, Greyfriars Cemetery, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
By The Way…
Cousin of (149) James Blair VC
Headstone did exist but now missing
VC Held By
1st Queen's Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum, Cardiff Castle, Cardiff, Wales
