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VC1045    David Lowe MacIntyre

Name  David Lowe MacIntyre   No.      

VC Issue No.   1045   Awards   VC     

Regiment   Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) attached to 1/6th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

Later   

Now   2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment Of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Temporary Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career  Major-General

Place Of Birth   Portnahaven, near Port Weymyss, Isle of Islay, Strathclyde, Scotland

Place Of Death   39 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland

Buried/Location Ashes   Warriston Crematorium, 36 Warriston Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Cremated   Warriston Crematorium, 36 Warriston Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Date Buried/Cremated   3 August 1967

Headstone   Ashes    Plot/Grave no.   Garden of Remembrance

Gazetted   26 October 1918

VC Presented   13 December 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

Display, National War Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland

P  Named on Family Headstone, Port Charlotte, Isle of Islay, Scotland

Victoria Cross Paving Stone, King Street, Portnahaven, Isle of Islay, Scotland

By The Way…

In later life he was Under Secretary of the Ministry of Works for Scotland, looking after Government buildings

VC Held By

National War Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

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BORN   18 June 1895

DIED   31 July 1967  AGE   72

VC Won   24-27 August 1918   AGE  23

Place VC Won   Henin and Fontaine, Croiselles,, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918