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Name Thomas Caldwell No.
VC Issue No. 1138 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Scots Fusiliers, 12th Battalion
Later Royal Highland Fusiliers
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment Of Scotland
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Company Sergeant-Major
Place Of Birth Carluke, Strathclyde, Scotland
Place Of Death Adelaide, South Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Centennial Park Crematorium, Adelaide, Australia
Cremated Centennial Park Crematorium, Adelaide, South Australia
Date Buried/Cremated 12 June 1969
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Wall 104, Row E, Niche 12
Gazetted 6 January 1919
VC Presented 8 May 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Memorial Plaque, Wall 104, Row E, Niche 12, Centennial Park Crematorium, Adelaide, SA, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Archway, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
P Stained Glass Window, Lifestyles Centre, Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
P Caldwell Road, Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Market Place, Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
P Town Sign, Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
By The Way…
Emigrated to Australia in 1927, dying there in 1969
VC Held By
Museum of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 518 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
BORN 10 February 1894
DIED 6 June 1969 AGE 75
VC Won 31 October 1918 AGE 24
Place VC Won Near Audenarde, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1918
