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Service Profile
- Branch
- British Army
- Rank
- Major
- Service Era
- Second Boer War, World War I, Battle of Loos, Battle of the Somme, First day on the Somme
- Medals Recorded
- 5
Stewart Loudoun-Shand
Major, British Army
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Awards & Decorations
- Victoria Cross
- Queen's South Africa Medal
- Cape Colony
- Orange Free State
- South Africa 1901
- 1914-15 Star
- British War Medal 1914–1920
- Victory Medal 1914-19
Ribbon Rack
Biography
He led his men over the parapet and urged them onward still.
Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand was born in Ceylon in 1879 and educated at Dulwich College. He worked in banking, joined the London Scottish and served with the Pembroke Yeomanry in the South African War. After work in South Africa and as a tea merchant in Ceylon, he returned to Britain in 1914 and joined the 10th Yorkshire Regiment. He became a temporary major after the battalion's heavy losses at Loos.
Near Fricourt on 1 July 1916, fierce machine-gun fire stopped his company as it climbed from the trenches. Loudoun-Shand mounted the parapet, helped his men over and encouraged them to advance. Mortally wounded, he insisted on being propped up so he could continue urging them on until he died.
There was no subsequent career. He was buried in Norfolk Cemetery near Albert. His father received his posthumous Victoria Cross at Buckingham Palace in March 1917.
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