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VC1126 John Brunton Daykins
Name John Brunton Daykins No.
VC Issue No. 1126 Awards VC MM
Regiment York & Lancaster Regiment, 2/4th Battalion, No. 7 Platoon
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won A/Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Ormiston Farm, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Place Of Death In an ambulance on the way to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after being found outside his home Howden Farm, Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland
Buried/Location Ashes Castlewood Cemetery, Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Grave 1431, family plot
Gazetted 6 January 1919
VC Presented 8 May 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Castlewood Cemetery, Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland
P Memorial Plaque, Royal British Legion, Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland Daykins Drive, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, War Memorial, Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland
Daykins Drive, Hawick, Borders, Scotland
By The Way…
He died from a bullet wound to the head, it was recorded that the gun fired accidentally whilst he was scaring off animals, outside his home
VC Held By
York & Lancaster Regiment Museum, Brian O'Malley Library & Arts Centre, Walker Place, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England
BORN 26 March 1883
DIED 24 January 1933 AGE 49
VC Won 20 October 1918 AGE 35
Place VC Won Solesmes, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
