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VC220 William George Drummond Stewart
BORN February 1831
DIED 19 October 1868 AGE 37
VC Won 16 November 1857 AGE 26
Place VC Won Secundra Bagh, Lucknow
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name William George Drummond Stewart No. ELECTED BY REGIMENT
VC Issue No. 220 Awards VC
Regiment 93rd Regiment
Later Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Princess Louise's
Now 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Grandtully, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Place Of Death Hythe, Kent, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Mary's Church, Grandtully, near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Vault Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 24 December 1858
VC Presented 06 December 1859 by Major-General Sir R Garrett at Umbeyla, Peshawar, India
Memorials
P Vault, St Mary's Church, Grandtully, near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland
By The Way…
Died as a result of a sword swallowing trick going tragically wrong
VC Held By
Lost
