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BORN 1825
DIED 15 February 1871 AGE 45
VC Won 16 November 1857 AGE 32
Place VC Won Secundra Bagh, Lucknow
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name James Munro No.
VC Issue No. 216 Awards VC
Regiment 93rd Regiment
Later Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Princess Louise's
Now 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Colour-Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Colour-Sergeant
Place Of Birth Nigg, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland
Place Of Death Craig Dunain Asylum for the Insane, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland
Buried/Location Ashes Craig Dunain Hospital Cemetery, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 8 November 1860
VC Presented 09 November 1860 by Queen Victoria at Home Park, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Craig Dunain Hospital Cemetery, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland
By The Way…
Headstone erected by the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Association 14 September 2002
VC Held By
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, The Castle, Stirling, Scotland
