Campaign: Western Front 1st World War 1915 Battle of Aubers Ridge
Citation: For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on 9th May 1915 near Rue de Bois when he led a bombing party of twelve men with the greatest gallantry in the attack until ten of them had fallen. Lance Corporal Findlay then ordered the two survivors to crawl back and he himself went to the assistance of a wounded man and carried him over a distance of one hundred yards of fire swept ground quite regardless of his own personal safety.
Location of VC: Black Watch Museum
Army Career: Enlisted 5th February 1910
Age on enlistment 18yrs 1 month
Trade: Ploughman
Promoted Corporal 2nd Battalion 23rd May 1915.
Promoted Sergeant 2nd Battalion 27th June 1915
Killed in Action 21st January 1916 Hannah Iraq
Army Service: At home 1 yr. 311 days.
India: 2yrs 282 days
France: 76 days
Persian Gulf: 47 days
Total: 5 yrs 351 days.
Comments: His name is recorded on the Basra Memorial Iraq (Panel 25 and 63). The Basra Memorial was originally found within the Basra War Cemetery, but was moved in 1997 by Presidential Decree. The Basra Memorial is now 32 kilometres along the road to Nasirayah in the middle of a Gulf War Battleground. More than forty thousand British, Indian and West African dead are commemorated on the Memorial.
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