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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 234

Meritorious Service Medal, V.R. (Serj.-Major J. Granger, 42nd. Rl. Highlanders.), minor edge nicks, nearly extremely fine

1093 Sergeant Major John Granger, born Chapleton, Glassford, Lanarkshire, December 1820; enlisted in the Royal Highlanders, December 1837; advanced Sergeant Major, January 1855; served with the Regiment in the Crimea; awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, with £20 Annuity, (submission to the Queen, 20.7.1855); 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; appointed Quartermaster, Land Transport Corps, September 1855; Commissioned Lieutenant, October 1855; promoted Captain, February 1856; appointed Adjutant, 1st Northern Volunteers, May 1860; retired with the rank of Major, September 1881; died at Rothesay, Bute, October 1891.

Provenance: Dawson Collection, 1954.

A re-named D.C.M. was offered in the Major Samson Collection, Glendining, June 1991, together with his officially impressed two clasp Crimea Medal, Turkish Crimea Medal, and a cup engraved ‘Sgt. Maj. J. Granger, 42nd R.H. Camp before Sebastopol Augt. 1855’. It may have been that Granger was awarded both the D.C.M. and M.S.M., and should have returned one of these to the issuing Authority, but did not do so.

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