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Name Ian John McKay No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1350 Awards VC
Regiment Parachute Regiment, 3rd Battalion, B Company, No. 4 Platoon
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Wortley, near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death Mount Longdon, East Falklands
Buried/Location Ashes Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 26 November 1982
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Lower Section, Row A, Grave 101
Gazetted 19 September 1969
VC Presented 9 November 1982 by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Marcia, step-son Donny, daughter Melanie and his parents
BORN 7 May 1953
DIED 12 June 1982 AGE 29
VC Won 12 June 1982 AGE 29
Place VC Won Mount Longdon, East Falklands
War/Campaign Falkland War
Memorials
P Headstone, Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England
P Named on National Memorial of Remembrance, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named on Parachute Regiment Memorial, Military Cemetery, Aldershot, Hampshire
Named on South Atlantic Task Force Memorial, St Paul's Cathedral, London
P McKay VC Memorial Cairn, Mount Longdon, Falkland Islands
P Falklands War Memorial, Alexandria Park, Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
P Named on Liberation Memorial, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Memorial Wall, Falklands Islands Memorial Chapel, Pangbourne College, Berkshire
P Named on Honours Board, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey
Memorial Plaque on War Memorial, Rotherham Grammer School, now Thomas Rotherham College, South Yorkshire
P Named on Memorial Fountain, Clifton Park, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
McKay Close, Aldershot, Hampshire
McKay VC Barracks, Fitzwilliam Road, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
McKay VC, Accommodation Block, Brecon, Wales
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VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
