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VC952   Allan Ebenezer Ker

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.

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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

The First World War