page_title: Harry Ranken
section_title: Details
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Ranken / Details
caption_attribution_description: English: Engraved and framed stone plaque commemorating Captain Harry Ranken VC in the University og Glasgow Chapel, Scotland.
context_page_description: Harry Sherwood Ranken VC 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.
context_section_description: Harry Ranken graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1905, and joined the British Army in 1909. Ranken was 31 years old, and a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, attached to 1st Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
  On 19 and 20 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 on 25 September.
  Ranken is buried in Braine Communal Cemetery.
caption: Memorial plaque to Harry Ranken VC in Glasgow University Chapel.
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