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BORN 26 May 1826
DIED 13 May 1869 AGE 42
VC Won 1 April 1858 AGE 31
Place VC Won Betwah
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name James Leith No.
VC Issue No. 250 Awards VC
Regiment 14th Light Dragoons
Later 14th Hussars, The King's
Now King's Royal Hussars
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth 'Glenkindie House' (The Big House), Glenkindie, Grampian, Scotland
Place Of Death 35 Gloucester Place, Paddington, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Towie Churchyard, Towie, near Glenkindie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 24 December 1858
VC Presented 08 June 1859 by Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Towie Churchyard, Towie, near Glenkindie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
By The Way…
The 14th Kings Hussars nickname is “the emperors chambermaids”
VC Held By
14th / 20th King's Hussars, County & Regimental Museum, Stanley Street, Preston, Lancashire, England
