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VC809   Arthur Henderson

Name   Arthur Henderson   No.      

VC Issue No.   809   Awards   VC   MC

Regiment   Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 4th Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion

Later   5th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Royal Regiment of Scotland

Now   Disbanded, July 2012

Rank VC Won   Acting Captain

Rank End Of Career   Acting Captain

Place Of Birth   18 Greenhill Road, Egnal, Paisley, Scotland

Place Of Death   Near Fontaine-les-Croisilles, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Cojeul British Cemetery, St Martin-sur-Cojeul, 5 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Row B, Grave 61

Gazetted   5 July 1917

VC Presented   21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Baillie George

Memorials

P  Headstone, Cojeul British Cemetery, St Martin-sur-Cojeul, 5 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Memorial, Paisley Abbey, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Hawkhead Cemetery, Paisley, Glasgow, Scotland

Named in John Neilson School Book of Remembrance, Paisley Abbey, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Memorial, Ferguslie Cricket Club, Paisley, Glasgow

Named on Roll of Honour,  Oakshaw West United Free Church, Glagow, Scotland

By The Way…

Before the War he was an accountant

VC Held By

The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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BORN   6 May 1893

DIED   24 April 1917   AGE   23

VC Won   23 April 1917   AGE   23

Place VC Won   Fontaine-les-Croisilles, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917