Captain HARRY SHERWOOD RANKEN
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Army Medical Corps
Date of Death
Died 25 September 1914
Age 31 years old
Photographer: Unknown
Photographer: Bill Caudwell
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Victoria Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France), for gallant conduct during the operations from 21st to 30th August 1914. Son of the Rev. Henry Ranken and Helen Morton Ranken, of The Manse, Irvine, Ayrshire. Native of Glasgow.
- Personal Inscription LA LEGION D'HONNEUR "FALLEN TO RISE BAFFLED TO FIGHT BETTER SLEEPS TO WAKE"
- Additional Citation note
An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 28976, dated 13th Nov., 1914, records the following:-"For tending wounded in the trenches under rifle and shrapnel fire at Hautevesnes on 19th September and on 20th September continuing to attend to wounded after his thigh and leg had been shattered. (He has since died of wounds.)"
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