ARMY LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL TO GRUBB-ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS-DIED 22ND AUGUST 1914

Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (George V) Named to:
4518 C.SJT.J.GRUBB.R.SCOTS.FUS.
Medal about extremely fine.
4518 Colour Serjeant John Grubb "C" Coy.4th Bn., Royal Scots Fusiliers died on 22nd August 1914 aged 38.Husband of Jane Grubb, of 63,William St.,Blairgowrie, Perthshire. He is buried at Rattray Parish Churchyard.
John Grubb was born in Rattray, Blairgowrie, Perthshire in 1876.He enlisted in 1894 and was posted to the Royal Scots Fusiliers .and served in India, qualifying for the Indian General Service Medal with clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98 and also served in South Africa from 1910 .At the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 he was serving as a drill instructor at Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland. He is reported to have died due to "sudden" ill health at Sterling Infirmary pn 22nd August, 1914.He was buried with full Military Honours. His Long Service Medal was awarded in October 1912.
Sold with a synopsis of his career, copied photo of Grubb and full details from his funeral as reported in The Scotsman newspaper of 26th August 1914.

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