Peter Grant (VC)
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox military person Peter Grant VC (1824 – 10 January 1868) was a British Army soldier and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Victoria Cross action
Grant was about 33 years old, and a private in the 93rd Regiment of Foot (later The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)) during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 16 November 1857 at the Secundra Bagh, Lucknow, for which he was awarded the VC: Template:Quote
He died from drowning in the River Tay in Dundee, Scotland on 10 January 1868.
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- 1824 births
- 1868 deaths
- 19th-century Irish military personnel
- Irish soldiers in the British Army
- Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders soldiers
- Deaths by drowning in the United Kingdom
- British Army personnel of the Crimean War
- British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
- Accidental deaths in Scotland
- Place of birth missing