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Name Allan Ebenezer Ker No.
VC Issue No. 952 Awards VC
Regiment Gordon Highlanders, 3rd Battalion attached to 61st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps
Later Highlanders
Now 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Place Of Death New Garden Hospital, Hampstead, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes West Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, Hampstead, London, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 17 September 1958
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section Q4, Grave 7
Gazetted 4 September 1919
VC Presented 26 November 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, West Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, Hampstead, London, England
By The Way…
After the War, he became a practising solicitor.
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 5 March 1883
DIED 12 September 1958 AGE 75
VC Won 21 March 1918 AGE 35
Place VC Won Near St. Quentin, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
1/2 Headstone, West Hampstead Cemetery, Hampstead, North London