Click below for full citation

VC765   Robert Downie

Name   Robert Downie   No.   11213   

VC Issue No.   765   Awards   VC   MM

Regiment   Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion

Later   

Now   Disbanded

Rank VC Won   Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Springburn Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Place Of Death   Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Buried/Location Ashes   St Kentigern's Cemetery, Tresta Road, Cadder, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   20 April 1968

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   Section 21, Lair 506

Gazetted   25 November 1916

VC Presented   8 January 1917 by King George V at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Kentigern's Cemetery, Tresta Road, Cadder, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow, Scotland

By The Way…

He was a Celtic supporter and at one time worked on the turnstiles

VC Held By

Not known

NEXT

PREVIOUS

BORN   12 January 1894

DIED   18 April 1968   AGE   74

VC Won   23 October 1916   AGE   22

Place VC Won   Lesboeufs, Somme, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1916

Thank you to Michael Kate & Ruth Pagan for photos of the Glasgow Victoria Cross Memorial

VC Ephemera