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VC1001 Robert Edward Cruickshank
Name Robert Edward Cruickshank No. 511828
VC Issue No. 1001 Awards VC
Regiment London Regiment, 2/14th (County of London) Battalion
Later
Now A Company, London Regiment, Army Reserve
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Place Of Death At his home, 13 Cork Lane, Glen Parva, Blaby, Leicestershire, England
Buried/Location Ashes All Saints Parish Church of Blaby, Church Street, off Sycamore Road, Blaby, Leicestershire, England
Cremated Gilroes Crematorium, Groby Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 21 June 1918
VC Presented 24 October 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Named on War Memorial, Port Sunlight, Merseyside N.B. He unveiled War Memorial
Memorial Plaque, School Quadrangle, Bancroft School, Woodford Green, Essex
By The Way…
He was a member of the Ancient Order of Druids
VC Held By
London Scottish Regimental Museum, RHQ, 95 Horseferry Road, London, England
BORN 17 June 1888
DIED 30 August 1961 AGE 73
VC Won 1 May 1918 AGE 29
Place VC Won Jordan, Palestine (now Israel)
War/Campaign First World War 1918
