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About Captain James Dalgleish Pollock, VC
Captain James Dalgleish Pollock VC (3 June 1890 – 10 May 1958) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
He was commissioned into the Cameron Highlanders in 1916 and left the Army in 1919 with the rank of Captain. James Pollock gained the VC for his outstanding bravery in saving his comrades in the Big Willie trench when it was infiltrated by German bombers. Just over two weeks later his second cousin, James Lennox Dawson also won the VC in the same trenches at the same battle. His actions were remarkably similar. Dawson saved his colleagues in the trench by going over the top, under machine-gun fire, to roll away gas canisters that had been blown open by German shells. Both boys were 25 years of age and born within six months of each other in the small Scottish town of Tillicoultry. Both were feted back in Scotland and given the equivalent of a civic reception, James Pollock in Tillicoultry and James Dawson in Alloa, barely a week apart in December 1915.
British Army Service Records 1914-1920
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- First name(s) James Dalgleish
- Last name Pollock
- Age 25
- Birth year 1889
- Birth town Tillicoultry
- Birth county Clackmannanshire
- Birth country Scotland
- Service number S/12087
- Regiment Cameron Highlanders
- Unit / Battalion 5th Battalion
- Year 1914
- Series WO 363
- Series description WO 363 - First World War service records 'burnt documents'
- Archive The National Archives
- Record set British Army Service Records
- Category Military, armed forces & conflict
- Subcategory First World War Other Information - mother Maggie
Medal Index Cards
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- First name(s) James Dalgleish
- Last name Pollock
- Year 1914-20
- Service number S/12087
- Rank Corporal,Lieutenant
- Second rank Lieutenant
- Regiment Cameron Highlanders
- Second corps Cameron Highlanders
- Service record Soldier Number: S/12087, Rank: Corporal, Corps: Cameron Highlanders
- Second service record Rank: Lieutenant, Corps: Cameron Highlanders
- Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D4670448
- Country Great Britain
- Medal type British Army medal index cards, 1914-1920
- Archive reference WO372/16
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Captain James Dalgleish Pollock, VC's Timeline
| 1890 |
June 3, 1890
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Tillycoulty, Clackmannanshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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| 1958 |
May 10, 1958
Age 67
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Ballochmyle, Ayrshire, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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