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Allegiance
  
Name
  
Hugh McIver

Service/branch
  
Battles/wars
  
Battles and wars
  
World War I


Unit
  
Rank
  
Private

Role
  
Armed force officer

Awards
  
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Born
  
June 21, 1890Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire (
1890-06-21
)

Buried at
  
Vraucourt Copse Cenetery, Vaulx-Vraucourt

Died
  
September 2, 1918, Courcelles, France

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Place of burial
  
Vaulx-Vraucourt, France

Hugh McIver VC MM & Bar (21 June 1890 – 2 September 1918) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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He was 28 years old, and a private in the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Lothian Regiment), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 23 August 1918 east of Courcelle-le Compte, France, Private McIver was employed as a company-runner and under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire carried messages regardless of his own safety. Single-handed he pursued an enemy scout into a machine-gun post and having killed six of the garrison, captured 20 prisoners and two machine-guns. Later he succeeded, at great personal risk, in stopping the fire of a British tank which was directed in error against our own troops. He was killed in action 10 days later.

He was killed in action, near Courcelles, France, on 2 September 1918.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Scots Museum, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland.

In 2015, Kier Homes named a street in their Hawkhead Village development in Paisley, Hugh McIver Avenue, in memory of him.

References

Hugh McIver Wikipedia


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