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VC544 Harry Sherwood Ranken
BORN 3 September 1883
DIED 25 September 1914 AGE 31
VC Won 10 or 19-20 September 1914 AGE 31
Place VC Won Hauteavesnes, France
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name Harry Sherwood Ranken No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 544 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Place Of Death Braine Dressing Station, Aisne, France
Buried/Location Ashes Braine Communal Cemetery, 10 miles east of Soissons, Aisne, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Row A, Grave 43
Gazetted 16 November 1914
VC Presented 29 November 1916 by King George V to his father at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Braine Communal Cemetery, 10 miles east of Soissons, Aisne, France
P Named on Irvine War Memorial, High Street, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
P Named on War Memorial at Irvine Old Parish Church, Peden Place, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
Brass memorial, Irvine Old Parish Church, Peden Place, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
Named on war memorial, Irvine golf club, Irvine, Ayreshire, Scotland
Named on family headstone in Irvine Cemetery, Ayrshire, Scotland
P Ranken Drive & Ranken Crescent, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland
Memorial in Irvine Roman Catholic Church, Ayrshire, Scotland
P Plaque, Nationel Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Named on memorial, Elder Memorial Chapel, Glasgow Western Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland
Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, University Chapel, University Of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
Named on War Memorial, University Chapel, University Of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
By The Way…
Even though his own leg was shattered and bleeding he still continued to bandage the wounded
VC Held By
Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
