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Mission to find families of Perthshire VC winners

Lt John Manson Craig, left, and Lt William Bissett.
Lt John Manson Craig, left, and Lt William Bissett.

The hunt is on to trace the families of two Perthshire Victoria Cross winners.

John Craig and William Bissett were both awarded the highest military honour for their exploits during the First World War.

Both men survived the conflict and died in the 1970s.

Commemorative paving slabs are to be laid in honour of each of them, and it is expected their descendants will play a part in deciding where the memorials will be located.

The slabs will be laid in 2017 and 2018 on the 100th anniversaries of the men’s VC-winning actions.

The first to be laid will go down on June 5 2017 in honour of John Manson Craig, who was born in Comrie and died in Crieff.

At the age of just 21, the second lieutenant was serving in Egypt with the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

He organised a rescue party to relieve a post which had been ambushed by the enemy and helped remove the dead and wounded while under machine gun fire.

Another soldier was injured, as was the medical officer who went to his aid.

Mr Craig was also wounded while rescuing them but managed to take both men to safety.

He returned home and married Dundee woman Elizabeth Melville Henderson in Kettins in 1931. He served in the RAF during the Second World War.

The memorial to William Davidson Bissett will be laid on October 25 2018.

Mr Bissett was born in St Martins in 1893 and died in Wrexham in Wales.

He was 25 and a lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders when he was awarded the VC.

On October 25 1918, while commanding a platoon in France, Lieutenant Bissett was forced to take command of the entire company due to heavy casualties.

When the enemy launched a counter-attack he withdrew to a nearby railway but after their ammunition was exhausted he ordered a bayonet charge which drove the enemy back allowing him to establish a new line.

He served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and Royal Pioneer Corps in the Second World War and achieved the rank of major.

His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum in Stirling Castle.

A Perth and Kinross Council spokeswoman said: “The council is very pleased to participate in the initiative to lay Victoria Cross paving stones to honour and commemorate the lives of John Manson Craig and William Davidson Bissett.

“The Victoria Cross commemorative paving stones are testimony to the valour of these local men in the dark days of the First World War, which should never be forgotten.”