General James Blair VC CB - 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry, Indian Army

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ROXBURGHSHIRE

Name James,
BLAIR		 John Brunton,
DAYKINS

Rank General Sergeant

Force 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry 2 / 4th Bn, York & Lancaster Regiment

VC won Neemuch, Indian Mutiny, 12 August 1857
Jeerum, Indian Mutiny, 23 October 1857		 Solesmes, France,
20 October 1918

London Gaz 25 February 1862 6 January 1919

Born Nimach, Gwalior State, India,
27 January 1828		 Ormiston Farm, Hawick,
26 March 1883

Died 18 January 1905,
Melrose, Roxburghshire		 24 January 1933,
Edinburgh

Grave Holy Trinity Churchyard, Melrose, Roxburghshire Castlewood Cemetery, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire

Location
of VC		 Lord Ashcroft Gallery
Imperial War Museum, London		 York & Lancaster Regiment Museum, Rotherham

Remarks CB MM

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