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VC848   George Imlach McIntosh

Name   George Imlach McIntosh   No.   265579   

VC Issue No.   848   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Gordon Highlanders, 1/6th (Banff & Donside) Battalion, C Company

Later   Highlanders

Now   4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Private

Rank End Of Career   Private

Place Of Birth   80 Portessie, Rathven, Banffshire, Scotland

Place Of Death   Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland

Buried/Location Ashes   New Cemetery, Buckie, Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   6 September 1917

VC Presented   18 September 1917 by King George V at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Memorials

P  Headstone, New Cemetery, Buckie, Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

P  Memorial Plaque next to Headstone, New Cemetery, Buckie, Moray, Scotland

P  McIntosh Avenue, Portessie, Buckie, Moray, Scotland

By The Way…

During the Second World War he served with the RAF, at a number of airfields around England and Iceland

VC Held By

The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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BORN   22 April 1897

DIED   20 June 1960   AGE   68

VC Won   31 July 1917   AGE   20

Place VC Won   Steenbeek stream, north-east of Ypres, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917