Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Lieut. R. J, Macleay, Arty. Rect. Depot) good very fine

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Simon C. Marriage Collection of Medals to the Artillery.

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Dix Noonan Webb, July 2019.

James Ronald Macleay was born at Santiago, Chile, on 26 October 1838, son of J. Macleay, Clerk to the British Consul. He was educated at Mr Shapcotts, Bayswater, and was nominated for the H.E.I.C. Army by W. Baylee and recommended by John Cotton. He was examined and passed on 3 January 1855, and sailed to India on the Candia, where he was posted as 2nd Lieutenant to the Artillery Recruit Depot. Macleay was made Lieutenant on 27 April 1858; served at Lucknow and the re-taking of Bareilly (Medal with clasp); and was made Captain on 10 June 1865. The Homeward Mail of 18 January 1869 reported that ‘Captain James Ronaly Macleay, 6th Battery 22nd Brigade Royal Artillery, who arrived at Kurrachee from England on November 28th, died on 13th December, from disease of the heart. The officers and men of the depot and of the garrison, as well as Major-General Sir George Malcolm, K.C.B., and his staff followed the funeral cortege to the cemetery.’