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VC664   Robert Dunsire

BORN   24 November 1891

DIED   30 January 1916   AGE   24

VC Won   26 September 1915   AGE   23

Place VC Won   Hill 70, Loos, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1915

Name   Robert Dunsire   No.   18274   

VC Issue No.   664   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), 13th Battalion

Later   Royal Scots

Now   1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   East Wemyss, near Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland

Place Of Death   Near Mazingarbe, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery & Extension, 5 miles south-east of Bethune, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Grave 18

Gazetted   18 November 1915

VC Presented   7 Decmber 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery & Extension, 5 miles south-east of Bethune, Pas de Calais, France

P  Named on Kirkcaldy War Memorial, Fife, Scotland

Named on war memorial, Methil & Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland   

Dunsire Street, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

Dunsire Street, Methil, Fife, Scotland

Named on war memorial, Methil Parish Church, Wellesley Road, Methil, Leven, Fife, Scotland

By The Way…

Before the war Robert Dunsire was a miner, and joined up with his workmates

VC Held By

Royal Scots Regiment Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

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