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Name Alexander Edwards No. 265473
VC Issue No. 852 Awards VC
Regiment Seaforth Highlanders, 1/6th (Morayshire) Battalion, C Company
Later Highlanders
Now 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Acting Company Sergeant - Major
Rank End Of Career Acting Company Sergeant - Major
Place Of Birth Drainie, Stotfield, Lossiemouth, Morayshire, Scotland
Place Of Death Near Loupart Wood, Bapaume, Somme, 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 14 September 1917
VC Presented 26 September 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Named on Arras Memorial to the Missing (bay 8), Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on War Memorial, Clifton Road, Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland
P Memorial Sundial on the Moray Links, 18th, Lossiemouth Golf Course, Moray, Scotland
By The Way…
His Name is on a Memorial Sundial, at Lossiemouth Golf Course, were he used to Caddie as a youngster
VC Held By
Highlanders Regiment Museum, Fort George, Inverness, Highlands, Scotland
BORN 4 November 1885
DIED 24 March 1918 AGE 32
VC Won 31 July 1917 AGE 31
Place VC Won Pilckem Ridge, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1917
