Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Chas. R. G. Macleod) good very fine £220-260

Charles Robert George Macleod was born in Allahabad on 27 September 1839, the son of James and Sarah Jane Macleod. Pror to the outbreak of the Mutiny, he was employed as a Signaller of the Electric Telegraph at Agra. During the Mutiny Macleod was a Militia Infantry Volunteer at Agra and fought at the battles of Sussiah, 5 July 1857 and Agra, 10 October 1857. According to the ‘Census’ taken on 27 July 1857 by Assistant Surgeon J. P. Walker, Macleod was accommodated in ‘Armoury Square, West Side’, Agra Fort. Later Macleod was an Inspector of Police at Sitapur. Sold with a folder of copied research.