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VC801   Donald Mackintosh

Name   Donald Mackintosh   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   801   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Seaforth Highlanders, 3rd Battalion

Later   The Highlanders

Now   4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Partick, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Place Of Death   North of Fampoux, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux, 5 miles east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot II, Row C, Grave 49

Gazetted   8 June 1917

VC Presented   21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents, Dr and Mrs Donald James Mackintosh

Memorials

P  Headstone, Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux, 5 miles east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Named On War Memorial, Glasgow Academy, Colebrooke Road, Glasgow, Scotland

Named On War Memorial, Glasgow University, University Avenue, Glasgow, Scotland

Memorial Plaque & Window, Chapel, Western Infirmary, Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Scotland

Named On War Memorial, Fettes College, East Fettes Avenue, Edingburgh, Scotland

Named on Parents Grave, Dalnottar Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland

By The Way…

His Father was the Medical Superintendent at Glasgows Western Infirmary, Donald was going to enrol after the war

VC Held By

Highlanders Regiment Museum, Fort George, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland

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BORN   7 February 1896

DIED   11 April 1917   AGE   21

VC Won   11 April 1917   AGE   21

Place VC Won   North of Fampoux, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917