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VC235 James John McLeod Innes
BORN 5 February 1830
DIED 13 December 1907 AGE 67
VC Won 23 February 1858 AGE 28
Place VC Won Sultanpore
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name James John McLeod Innes No.
VC Issue No. 235 Awards VC CB
Regiment Indian Army, Bengal Engineers
Later
Now Royal Engineers
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-General
Place Of Birth Baghalpur, Bengal, India
Place Of Death At his home, Cambridge, England
Buried/Location Ashes Newmarket Road Cemetery, Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section A, Grave 3704
Gazetted 24 December 1858
VC Presented 1859, Viceroy Lord Canning, India
Memorials
P Headstone, New Market Road Cemetery, Newmarket Road, Cambridge
P Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent
Marker post with his name on at Lucknow Residency, India
By The Way…
He was in the Bengal Engineers but took up a civilian post in India, when the mutiny broke out he rejoined the engineers with a rank of lieutenant
VC Held By
Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England
