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BORN 13 January 1894
DIED 14 April 1917 AGE 23
VC Won 22 June 1916 AGE 22
Place VC Won Givenchy, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name John Erskine No. 5476 (later 200476)
VC Issue No. 708 Awards VC
Regiment Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 5th Battalion, D Company
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lance-Corporal, acting Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Park Avenue, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Place Of Death Near Fontaine-les-Croisilles, Arras, France
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Named on the Arras Memorial to the Missing (CWGC) Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 5 August 1916
VC Presented 2 June 1917 by King George V at Hyde Park, London, England to his mother, Elizabeth and sister Bessie
Memorials
P Named On Arras Memorial to the Missing (Bay 6), Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Named On Family Headstone, Cairneyhill, Fife, Scotland
P Named On War Memorial, Cairneyhill, Fife, Scotland
Named On War Memorial, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
By The Way…
The Erskine Memorial Medal is awarded each year by Dunfermline High School for excellence in the Arts and Sciences
VC Held By
Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Regimental Museum, Low Parks Museum, 129 Muir Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
