Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 28976, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28976/pages/9374. The KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned for their conspicuous bravery whilst serving with the Expeditionary Force:- Captain Harry Sherwood Ranken, Royal Army Medical Corps. For tending wounded in the trenches under rifle and shrapnel fire at Haute-Avesnes, France, 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 his wounds.) ALSO GAZETTE ISSUE 28977, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28977/pages/9403. (DUPLICATE CITATION). THE REGISTER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS CITATION READS: On 19th and 20th September 1914 at Haute-Avesnes, France, Captain Ranken was severely wounded in the leg whilst attending to his duties on the battlefield under shrapnel and rifle fire. He arrested the bleeding from this and bound it up, then continued to dress the wounds of his men, sacrificing his own chance of survival to their needs. When he finally permitted himself to be carried to the rear his case had become almost desperate and he died within a short period. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28942/supplements/8356. GAZETTE ISSUE 28942, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, The despatch has been received by the Secretary of States for War from the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, British Forces in the Field. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28945/pages/8388. GAZETTE ISSUE 28945, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, I have the honour to forward herewith the names of those under my command whom I wish to bring to notice for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 28976, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28976/pages/9374. The KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned for their conspicuous bravery whilst serving with the Expeditionary Force:- Captain Harry Sherwood Ranken, Royal Army Medical Corps. For tending wounded in the trenches under rifle and shrapnel fire at Haute-Avesnes, France, 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 his wounds.) ALSO GAZETTE ISSUE 28977, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28977/pages/9403. (DUPLICATE CITATION). THE REGISTER OF THE VICTORIA CROSS CITATION READS: On 19th and 20th September 1914 at Haute-Avesnes, France, Captain Ranken was severely wounded in the leg whilst attending to his duties on the battlefield under shrapnel and rifle fire. He arrested the bleeding from this and bound it up, then continued to dress the wounds of his men, sacrificing his own chance of survival to their needs. When he finally permitted himself to be carried to the rear his case had become almost desperate and he died within a short period. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28942/supplements/8356. GAZETTE ISSUE 28942, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, The despatch has been received by the Secretary of States for War from the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, British Forces in the Field. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28945/pages/8388. GAZETTE ISSUE 28945, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, I have the honour to forward herewith the names of those under my command whom I wish to bring to notice for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.