Miniature Medals

Army Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Serj.-Major J. Granger, 42nd Rl. Highlanders) good very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the 42nd and 73rd Regiments (Black Watch).

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Sergeant-Major John Granger was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, with £20 Annuity, as a result of the submission to the Queen dated 20 July 1855. According to Royal Mint records Granger was also awarded the D.C.M. in the same submission but, as the submission no longer survives, this cannot be confirmed. A re-named D.C.M. was offered in the Sampson Collection 1991, together with his 2-clasp Crimea Medal, Turkish Crimea Medal, and a cup engraved ‘Sgt. Maj. J. Granger, 42nd R.H. Camp before Sebastopol Augt. 1855’.

John Granger was born at Glassford, Lanarkshire, in 1820, and enlisted in 1837. He was Sergeant-Major by 1855, and gazetted Quartermaster of the Land Transport Corps in September of that year. He became Captain in 1856 and retired by sale of his commission in 1860, becoming Adjutant of the Glasgow 1st Northern Volunteers the same year. He finally retired in 1881 and died at Rothesay, Bute, on 10 October 1891.