Men of Valour Canada’s Victoria Cross Recipients 2 | P a g e Table of Contents Foreword .................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Origin of the Victoria Cross ............................................................................................................................... 5 Victoria Cross Facts .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Unusual Victoria Crosses.................................................................................................................................... 9 How Many Canadian Victoria Crosses? ..................................................................................................... 11 Irrefutable Canadian VC Awards .................................................................................................................. 14 pLieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC ........................................................................................................................... 15 Corporal Colin Fraser Barron, VC ................................................................................................................................. 17 Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew, VC ......................................................................................................................... 19 Corporal Alexander Picton Brereton, VC ...................................................................................................................... 21 pLieutenant Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant, VC, MC ....................................................................................................... 23 pPrivate Harry W. Brown, VC ........................................................................................................................................ 25 pSergeant Hugh Cairns, VC, DCM................................................................................................................................. 27 pLieutenant Frederick William Campbell, VC ............................................................................................................... 29 pCorporal Lionel (Leo) Beaumaurice Clarke, VC .......................................................................................................... 31 Lieutenant-Colonel W.H. Clark-Kennedy, VC, CMG, DSO* ....................................................................................... 33 Lieutenant Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn, VC ..................................................................................................... 35 pLieutenant Robert Grierson Combe, VC ...................................................................................................................... 37 Corporal Frederick George Coppins, VC ....................................................................................................................... 39 pSergeant Aubrey Cosens, VC ....................................................................................................................................... 41 pPrivate John Bernard Croak, VC .................................................................................................................................. 43 Major David Vivian Currie, VC..................................................................................................................................... 45 Private Thomas Dinesen, VC ......................................................................................................................................... 48 pLance Corporal Frederick Fisher, VC ........................................................................................................................... 50 pLieutenant Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, VC .................................................................................................................. 52 Captain, the Reverend, John Weir Foote, VC ................................................................................................................ 54 Corporal Herman James Good, VC................................................................................................................................ 56 pLieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR ................................................................................................ 58 Lieutenant Milton Fowler Gregg, VC, CBE, MC* ........................................................................................................ 60 pSergeant-Major Frederick William Hall, VC ................................................................................................................ 62 Sergeant Major Robert Hill Hanna, VC ......................................................................................................................... 64 Lieutenant Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, VC, MC .............................................................................................. 66 pSergeant Frederick Hobson, VC ................................................................................................................................... 68 Sergeant Edward J.G. Holland, VC ............................................................................................................................... 70 Private Thomas William Holmes, VC ............................................................................................................................ 71 pLieutenant Samuel Lewis Honey, VC, DCM, MM ...................................................................................................... 73 pFlight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell, VC, RCAF .................................................................................................... 75 Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson, VC, MC ......................................................................................................... 78 pCorporal Joseph Kaeble, VC, MM ............................................................................................................................... 80 Lieutenant George Fraser Kerr, VC, MC*, MM ............................................................................................................ 82 Private John Chipman Kerr, VC .................................................................................................................................... 84 Private Cecil John Kinross, VC ..................................................................................................................................... 86 pSergeant Arthur George Knight, VC ............................................................................................................................ 88 Page | 11 Corporal Filip Konowal, VC .......................................................................................................................................... 90 Major O’Kill Massey Learmonth, VC ........................................................................................................................... 93 Lieutenant Graham Thomson Lyall, VC ........................................................................................................................ 95 Captain Thain Wendell MacDowell, VC, DSO ............................................................................................................. 98 Captain John MacGregor, VC, MC*, DCM ................................................................................................................. 101 Major John Keefer Mahony, VC .................................................................................................................................. 103 Lieutenant George Burdon McKean, VC, MC, MM ................................................................................................... 106 pLieutenant Hugh McDonald McKenzie, VC, DCM ................................................................................................... 108 Sergeant William Merrifield, VC, MM ........................................................................................................................ 110 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, VC ............................................................................................. 112 Lance Corporal William Henry Metcalf, VC, MM ...................................................................................................... 114 pPrivate William Johnstone Milne, VC ........................................................................................................................ 116 pCorporal Harry Garnet Bedford Miner, VC ................................................................................................................ 117 Captain Coulson Norman Mitchell, VC, MC ............................................................................................................... 119 Sergeant George Harry Mullin, VC, MM .................................................................................................................... 121 pPilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski, VC, RCAF ................................................................................................. 123 pPrivate Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, VC, DCM, MM ..........................................................................................