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Name Hugh McIver No. 12311 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1043 Awards VC MM & Bar
Regiment Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), 2nd Battalion, C Company
Later Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
Now 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth 30 Napier Street, Linwood, Kilbarchan, near Johnstone, Strathclyde, Scotland
Place Of Death South of Montdidier, France
Buried/Location Ashes Vraucourt Copse Cemetery, Rue de Calvaire, Vaulx-Vraucourt, 10 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 1, Row A, Grave 19
Gazetted 15 November 1918
VC Presented 13 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, Hugh and Mary
Memorials
P Headstone, Vraucourt Copse Cemetery, Rue de Calvaire, Vaulx-Vraucourt, 10 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
Named on family Headstone, Westburn Cemetery, Old Mill Road, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire
Will be named on, Cambuslang War Memorial, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Hawkhead Cemetery, Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland
Display at Regimental Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
P Memorial Plaque, Courcelles-Le-Compte, France
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
Hugh McIver Avenue, Hawkhead Village, Paisley, Scotland
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone and Plaque, Remembrance Garden, Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Tweedie Hall, Linwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland
By The Way…
The nickname for the Royal Scots is, Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard
VC Held By
Royal Scots Regiment Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
BORN 21 June 1890
DIED 2 September 1918 AGE 28
VC Won 23 August 1918 AGE 28
Place VC Won Courcelle-le Compte, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
