Indian Mutiny, 2 clasps, Relief of Lucknow, Delhi,
Lieut. (later Major), F.B. Mc’Crae, 1st Bn. 8th. Regt.
From Historial Records of the 8th Foot, services of the Majors
Frederick Bradford M’Crea. He served with the regiment during the Mutiny of 1857, and was present at the two days fighting in the city 19th and 20th September: at the actions of Bulandshar and Allyghur, at the affair of Akrabad, and the battle of Agra, at the affair of Kanouje, and the advance into the Oude; at the actions of Mariganj, Alumbagh, and Dilkoosha, and at the Refief of Lucknow. At the actions near Cawnpore on the 2nd and 6th December, 1857, and at the action of Khuda Gunj, 2nd January, 1858. During the months of August, September, and October, 1858 he was stationed at Meerun-ke-Serai in command of detachments, consisting of the Grenadier and A Companies and upwards of 1500 Native troops, and was employed in watching about sixteen miles of the course of the Ganges, to prevent the rebel bands crossing from Oude to the Agra district. On the 1st November the greater number of the troops were withdrawn from Meerun-ke-Serai, and the detachment of the King’s rejoined Headquarters, which were then in Oude attached to Brigadier Hale’s column
From the History of Clan MacCrae
Frederick Bradford, born on the 4th of December, 1833, a Major in the Eighth (The King’s) Regiment, who served at the taking of Delhi in 1857, and was afterwards present in the following actions, viz., Bohundshur, Ackabad, Mynpoorie, Battle of Agra, actions of Karonge and Alumbagh, relief of the garrison of Lucknow, battles of the 2nd and 6th December at Cawnpore, action of Fattehghur, and the Oude campaign of 1858. Also, was in command of details of a force of about two thousand strong at Meerun-ka-Serai for about four months, and prevented the Nana Sahib and Feroh-Shah, the son of the King of Delhi, each, on two occasions, from crossing the Ganges, and so getting into Central India. For the services rendered on those two occasions, he was thanked by the General Officers of three Divisions. He has the Indian Mutiny medal with clasps for Delhi and the Relief of Lucknow, and is a F.R.G.S., F.R.H.S., and F.LI. In 1871 Major McCrea founded ” The Army and Navy Co-operative Society,” of which he has been a Managing Director ever since, and with a capital of £60,000 the Society has up to the 31st of January, 1898, paid in bonuses and interest, £1,297,508, and accumulated reserve funds amounting to £270,449. Major McCrea married, on the 24th of January, 1864, Frederica Charlotte (who died on the 10th of June, 1894), only daughter of Captain John Francis Wetherall, 41st Regiment, and has issue
