William Eagleson Gordon

Citation Gordon was 34 years old, and a captain in the 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place near Krugersdorp, South Africa for which he (together with Captain David Reginald Younger) was awarded the VC:

His Victoria Cross is on display at the Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Later military career Gordon, promoted in January 1907 to major, was brevetted lieutenant colonel in the Gordon Highlanders in 1907. Gordon also served as an aide-de-camp to King George V, having been appointed to that position in October 1913.

On 4 May 1923 Gordon was placed on retired pay having achieved the rank of major although as previously noted he was a brevet lieutenant colonel.

Gordon died in retirement, as a result of enemy action during World War II, after being injured in a bombed-out house in London, at Hindhead, Surrey, in 1941 aged 74.

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