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VC923   John McAulay

Name   John McAulay   No.     

VC Issue No.   923   Awards   VC    DCM

Regiment   Scots Guards, 1st Battalion, C Company

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Sergeant

Rank End Of Career  Sergeant

Place Of Birth    Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland

Place Of Death   At his home, 915 Aikenhead Road, Burnside, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Buried/Location Ashes   Eastwood New Cemetery, Thornliebank Road, Thornliebank, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   17 January 1956

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Section L, Lair 139

Gazetted   11 January 1918

VC Presented   16 March 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Eastwood New Cemetery, Thornliebank Road, Thornliebank, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

By The Way…

Before and after the war, he was in the Glasgow Police Force, being the Glasgow Police heavy weight boxing champion

VC Held By

Scots Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England

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BORN   5 December 1896

DIED   14 January 1956    AGE   67

VC Won   27 November 1917   AGE   28

Place VC Won   Fontaine Notre Dame, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917