When he arrived home to Springburn from fighting at the Somme, he was hoisted shoulder-high by the crowds who had turned out to meet him
Park on a Saturday afternoon would not have given a second glance to the unassuming gent taking their tickets.When he arrived home tofrom fighting at the Somme, he was hoisted shoulder-high by the crowds who turned out at Central Station to meet him.
On Armistice Day, 1919, he was one of the bodyguard, under General Freyberg, VC, of the Unknown Warrior.David won the VC and its Serbian equivalent during the Dardanelles campaign. As a private in the Royal Scots Fusiliers he threw a bomb which failed to clear a parapet and fell among the bombing party. Mr Lauder localised the explosion by putting his foot on the bomb. He lost a leg as a result.
He had volunteered to serve alongside the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and within days of arriving in France on August 13, 1914, Ranken was appointed a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour for gallantry under fire.
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