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Name James McPhie No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1120 Awards VC
Regiment Corps of Royal Engineers, 416th (Edinburgh) Field Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth 21 Salisbury Place, Rose Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Place Of Death Canal de la Sensee, near Aubencheul-au-Bac, France
Buried/Location Ashes Naves Communal Cemetery Extension, 3 miles east of Cambrai, Nord, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 15 October 1918
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot II, Row E, Grave 4
Gazetted 31 January 1919
VC Presented 03 April 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his mother, Elizabeth
Memorials
P Headstone, Naves Communal Cemetery Extension, 3 miles east of Cambrai, Nord, France
P Named on 'For Valour' Board, Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent
P Memorial Bench, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Jct West Richmond and Brown Street, Edinburgh
By The Way…
His brother John fought in the same unit, he helped to bury his brother the day after his VC action
VC Held By
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Kennington, London, England
BORN 18 December 1894
DIED 14 October 1918 AGE 23
VC Won 14 October 1918 AGE 23
Place VC Won Aubencheul-au-Bac, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
