Hugh McIver

Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross

Award given to Hugh Mclver

Hugh McIver

Born| (1890-06-21)21 June 1890
Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire
Died| 2 September 1918(1918-09-02) (aged 28)
Courcelles, France
Buried|

Vraucourt Copse Cemetery, Vaulx-Vraucourt

Allegiance|  United Kingdom
Service/branch|  British Army
Rank| Private
Unit| The Royal Scots
Battles/wars| World War I †
Awards| Victoria Cross
Military Medal & Bar

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.

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[1] near Courcelles, France, on 2 September 1918.[2]

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.[citation needed]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "No. 31012". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 November 1918. p. 13473.
2. ^ CWGC entry

## Notes[edit]

* Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
* The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
* Scotland's Forgotten Valour (Graham Ross, 1995)

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| Current|

* RHF (2 SCOTS)
* BW (3 SCOTS)
* HLDRS (4 SCOTS)
* 52 LOWLAND (6 SCOTS)
* 51 HIGHLAND (7 SCOTS)

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* RSB (1 SCOTS)
* ASH (5 SCOTS)

Predecessors|

| 1st generation|

* Royal Scots (1633–2006)
* 42nd Regiment of Foot ( 1661–1881)
* Royal Scots Fusiliers (1678–1959)
* King's Own Scottish Borderers (1689–2006)
* 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot (1756–1881)
* 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot (1758–1881)
* 91st (Argyllshire Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (1759–1881)
* 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot (1787–1881)
* 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot (1787–1881)
* 72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders (1788–1881)
* Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (1793–1961)
* 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (1793–1881)
* 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (1794–1881)
* 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (1799–1881)

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* Highland Light Infantry (1881–1959)
* Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (1881–2006)
* Seaforth Highlanders (1881–1961)
* Gordon Highlanders (1881–1994)
* Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (1881–2006)

3rd generation|

* Royal Highland Fusiliers (1959–2006)
* Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) (1961–1994)
* Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) (1994–2006)

Victoria Cross|

* Joseph Prosser
* Henry Howey Robson
* William Angus
* Robert Dunsire
* Henry Reynolds
* Hugh McIver
* Roland Elcock
* David Stuart McGregor
* David Ferguson Hunter
* Charles Thomas Kennedy
* George Rodgers
* George Wilson
* William Herbert Anderson
* Frank Gerald Blaker
* Walter Lorrain Brodie
* William Edwards
* John Brown Hamilton
* Alexander Hore-Ruthven
* John Shaul
* James Youll Turnbull
* Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson
* Daniel Laidlaw
* John Kendrick Skinner
* William Henry Grimbaldeston
* Louis McGuffie
* Bill Speakman
* Francis Edward Henry Farquharson
* John Simpson
* Alexander Thompson
* James Davis
* Edward Spence
* William Gardner
* Walter Cook
* Duncan Millar
* Samuel McGaw
* Thomas Edwards
* John Ripley
* David Finlay
* Charles Melvin
* Lewis Pugh Evans
* Andrew Cathcart Bogle
* Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe
* Herbert Taylor Macpherson
* Joseph Jee
* Valentine Munbee McMaster
* Stewart McPherson
* Henry Ward
* James Hollowell
* Aylmer Spicer Cameron
* George Sellar
* John MacKenzie
* Sidney William Ware
* Walter Potter Ritchie
* Thomas Steele
* Donald MacKintosh
* Alexander Edwards
* Robert McBeath
* John Meikle
* Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton
* James Dalgleish Pollock
* Ross Tollerton
* Thomas Beach
* Richard Wadeson
* Patrick Green
* Cornelius Coughlan
* George White
* William Henry Dick-Cunyngham
* Edward Lawson
* George Findlater
* Matthew Meiklejohn
* William Robertson
* Ernest Towse
* John Frederick MacKay
* William Eagleson Gordon
* David Reginald Younger
* William Kenny
* James Anson Otho Brooke
* George Imlach McIntosh
* Allan Ebenezer Ker
* George Allan Mitchell
* John Dunlay
* William George Drummond Stewart
* Peter Grant
* David MacKay
* James Munro
* John Paton
* William McBean
* John Aidan Liddell
* Reginald Graham
* Arthur Henderson
* John Crawford Buchan
* David Lowe MacIntyre
* William Davidson Bissett
* Lorne MacLaine Campbell
* John "Jock" Anderson
* Kenneth Muir

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* Scots Guards
* Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
* Scottish Division
* Highland Brigade
* Lowland Brigade
* Scottish regiment
* Military history of Scotland
* Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

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