MacGREGOR, Roderick
Private. 1st Battalion. Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade.
London Gazetted on 24th February, 1857.
Born in 1824 at Inverness, Scotland.
Died on 10th August 1888 at Buntoit, Urquhart, Inverness-shire, Scotland.
Memorial on the Rifle Brigade Memorial, Winchester Cathedral.
Digest of Citation reads:
At the Quarries, in the Crimea, on 22nd April 1855, whilst fetching water from a well situated in front of the trench, a bandsman was killed. Determined to drive away the Russian Riflemen from the pits that they occupied, several men rushed out. Private McGregor and two others were first on the scene and drove the Russians out, killing some. Three months later, in July, Private McGregor, as a sharpshooter, was in the advance trenches before Sebastopol. Under heavy fire he traversed an open space, then taking cover under a rock, he dislodged two Russians that were occupying a rifle pit.

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