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VC1128 David Stuart McGregor
Name David Stuart McGregor No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1128 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), 6th Battalion attached 29th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Later
Now 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Craigs Road, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, Scotland
Place Of Death Near Hill 66, Hoogmolen, Belgium
Buried/Location Ashes Stasegem Communal Cemetery, Groendreef/ Ommegangsstraat, 1 mile east of Kortrijk (Courtrai), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Row A, Grave 1
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 15 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, David & Annie
Memorials
P Headstone, Stasegem Communal Cemetery, Groendreef/ Ommegangsstraat, 1 mile east of Kortrijk (Courtrai), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
P Named on Family Headstone, Corstorphine Hill Cemetery, Edinburgh, Midlothian
Named on War Memorial, Royal Bank of Scotland, 36 St Andrews Square, Edinburgh
Display at Royal Scots Regimental Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
P Named on War Memorial, George Heriot School, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, outside George Heriot School, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
P Named on War Memorial, George Watsons College, Colinton Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
P Victoria Cross Stone, Royal Scots Club, 29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
P Painting, Royal Scots Club, 29 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
By The Way…
Before the war he worked for the Commercial Bank of Scotland, now RBS
VC Held By
Royal Scots Regiment Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
BORN 16 October 1895
DIED 22 October 1918 AGE 23
VC Won 22 October 1918 AGE 23
Place VC Won Near Hoogemolen, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1918
