Awards & Winners

John MacLaren Erskine

Date of Birth 13-January-1894
Place of Birth Dunfermline
(United Kingdom, Fife, Scotland)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
John MacLaren Erskine VC 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. Erskine was born in 1894 to William and Elizabeth Erskine. He was 22 years old, and a serjeant in the 5th Battalion, The Cameronians, British Army during the First World War, when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 22 June 1916 at Givenchy, France.

Awards by John MacLaren Erskine

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1916


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd June, 1916 as Sergeant of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) during the First World War.)