India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (Sub. Lieut: D. M. Ross. R.N. H.M.S. “Fly.”) nearly extremely fine £500-£700

Approximately 103 Perak clasps to H.M.S. Fly.

Duncan Munro Ross was born in Cromarty, Inverness-shire, on 29 September 1851, the eldest son of Colonel G. W. H. R. Ross, sometime Colonel-Commandant of the Sewaforth Highlanders, and was appointed Midshipman on 18 August 1867. Promoted Sub-Lieutenant on 25 February 1872, he served as a Sub-Lieutenant in H.M.S. Fly from 13 July 1874, and saw active service in charge of a native boat crewed with eight men and armed with a cohorn mortar at the attack and capture of Passir Sala, in the Straits of Malacca during the Perak campaign of 1875. For these services he was Mentioned in Commander Francis Stirling’s Despatch of 16 November 1875 (London Gazette 23 February 1876). He was promoted Lieutenant on 28 April 1876, and retired on 1 December 1877. He died in 1887.

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