42nd United States Congress | regiment | Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom) | Regiment | Seventh Regiment Armory | Parachute Regiment | Foot Guards | Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment | Gloucestershire Regiment | Foot Locker | Devonshire Regiment | The Royal Canadian Regiment | Royal Newfoundland Regiment | Essex Regiment | East Yorkshire Regiment | Thousand Foot Krutch | Royal Sussex Regiment | Royal Anglian Regiment | Paul Foot | King's Own Royal Border Regiment | Cheshire Regiment | 5th Cavalry Regiment | South Lancashire Regiment | Royal Tank Regiment | Royal Lincolnshire Regiment | One Foot in the Grave | Grenoble Foot 38 | Duke of Wellington's Regiment | Canadian Airborne Regiment | Royal Norfolk Regiment |
McGaw was about 36 years old, and a lance-sergeant in the 42nd Regiment of Foot (later The Black Watch Royal Highlanders), British Army during the First Ashanti Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.