{"id":3300,"date":"2020-09-08T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:13:01","slug":"tribute-to-john-cruikshank-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/tribute-to-john-cruikshank-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to John Cruikshank VC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> John Cruikshank was born on May 20th 1920, and attended the Royal High  School in 1930 for 2 or 3 years.\u00a0 \u00a0 He moved to Daniel Stewart&#8217;s College  from the Royal High, and completed his school education there.\u00a0 \u00a0 He  tends to be &#8216;claimed&#8217; by Daniel Stewart&#8217;s as their pupil, and indeed  there is a substantial tribute to him in their school.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0He is the  only living VC in Scotland and one of only 27 surviving VC holders in  the World.\u00a0 \u00a0 His VC award citation can be viewed<a href=\"https:\/\/vcgca.org\/our-people\/profile\/7\/John-Alexander-CRUICKSHANK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"> <strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A thirty minute film (including interviews with John Cruikshank) was   made of the events leading to the award, and that can be seen <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mraRXjjIAUc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> <\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The RHS Club in Edinburgh considered that a birthday greeting to him was  appropriate, and we contacted him at the &#8216;assisted living&#8217; home in  Aberdeen where he now resides.&nbsp; &nbsp;We decided to create a tribute,  consisting of a film (which will be made available in due course), and a  birthday tribute from our&nbsp;President Ian&nbsp;Cowie, and last year&#8217;s School  Captain Lucy Krauth.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;He was happy to receive the tribute, which you  can view <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/john-cruikshank-vc\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cruikshank was born on May 20th 1920, and attended the Royal High School in 1930 for 2 or 3 years.\u00a0 \u00a0 He moved to Daniel Stewart&#8217;s College from the Royal High, and completed his school education there.\u00a0 \u00a0 He tends to be &#8216;claimed&#8217; by Daniel Stewart&#8217;s as their pupil, and indeed there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}