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Lieutenant James John McLeod INNES VC |
| Born: | Baghalpur, Bengal, India - 5 February 1830 | 
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| Died: | Cambridge, England - 13 December 1907 | ||
| Burial details: | New Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge | ||
| Corps service: | Commissioned into the Bengal Engineers on 8 December 1848. Whilst at Addiscombe Academy he was awarded the Pollock Medal. In 1851 he took up a civil career with the Public Works Department, Bengal and was promoted to lieutenant. At the outbreak of the Mutiny he rejoined the military side and saw action at Lucknow, India. Retired as Lieutenant-General J.J. McLeod Innes, VC, CB | ||
| VC awarded: | Won VC at Sultanpore, India on 28 February 1858. (Indian Mutiny 1857-8) | ||
| VC unit: | Bengal Engineers. | ||
| VC presented: | VC presented by the Governor General, Lord Canning, at Fort William, Calcutta on 1 July 1859 | ||
| VC citation: | At the action of Sultanpore, Lieutenant Innes, far in
advance of the leading skirmishers, was the first to secure a gun
which the enemy were abandoning. Retiring from this, they rallied
round another gun further back, from which the shot would, in another
instant, have ploughed through our advancing columns, when Lieutenant
Innes rode up, unsupported, shot the gunner who was about to apply
the match, and, remaining undaunted at his post, the mark for a hundred
matchlock men, who were sheltered in some adjoining huts, kept the
artillerymen at bay until assistance reached him. (London Gazette: 24 December 1858) |
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| VC location: | Royal Engineers Museum | ||
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Additional material: SC Fenwick, FoREM Links to further reading:
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