Chronicles of Courage Canada’s Victoria Cross Winners Compiled by Michael Braham Capt (N) (Ret’d) Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Foreword ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Origin of the Victoria Cross .......................................................................................................................... 6 Victoria Cross Facts ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Unusual Victoria Crosses ............................................................................................................................. 13 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 15 Lieutenant Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC ......................................................................................................... 16 Major William George Barker, VC, MC**, DSO* ................................................................................ 18 Corporal Colin Fraser Barron, VC ............................................................................................................. 24 Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew, VC ................................................................................................... 29 Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Eric Bent, VC, DSO .................................................................................... 31 Captain William Avery Bishop, VC, CB, MC, DSO*, DFC ................................................................ 33 Lieutenant Rowland Richard Louis Bourke, VC, DSO ....................................................................... 37 Lieutenant Jean Baptiste Arthur Brillant, VC, MC .............................................................................. 42 Private Harry W. Brown, VC ....................................................................................................................... 44 Sergeant Hugh Cairns, VC, DCM .............................................................................................................. 46 Lieutenant Frederick William Campbell, VC ......................................................................................... 49 Corporal Lionel (Leo) Beaumaurice Clarke, VC .................................................................................. 52 Lieutenant Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn, VC .......................................................................... 57 Lieutenant Robert Grierson Combe, VC ................................................................................................ 59 Corporal Frederick George Coppins, VC ................................................................................................ 61 Sergeant Aubrey Cosens, VC .................................................................................................................... 63 Private John Bernard Croak, VC ............................................................................................................... 66 Private Robert Edward Cruickshank, VC ............................................................................................... 68 Major David Vivian Currie, VC ................................................................................................................... 71 Lieutenant Raymond H.L. de Montmorency, VC ................................................................................ 74 2nd Lieutenant Edmund de Wind, VC ...................................................................................................... 76 Private Thomas Dinesen, VC ..................................................................................................................... 78 Assistant Surgeon Campbell Mellis Douglas, VC ................................................................................ 80 Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn, VC............................................................................................... 82 Lance Corporal Frederick Fisher, VC ....................................................................................................... 86 Lieutenant Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, VC............................................................................................. 89 Captain, the Reverend, John Weir Foote, VC ...................................................................................... 91 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin Handley Geary, VC ..................................................................................... 93 Corporal Herman James Good, VC .......................................................................................................... 95 Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR ....................................................................... 97 Lieutenant Milton Fowler Gregg, VC, CBE, MC* ............................................................................... 100 Sergeant-Major Frederick William Hall, VC ........................................................................................ 103 Able Seaman William Hall, VC................................................................................................................. 105 Sergeant Major Robert Hill Hanna, VC ................................................................................................ 108 Lieutenant Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, VC, MC ................................................................. 110 Sergeant Frederick Hobson, VC.............................................................................................................. 113 Major Charles Ferguson Hoey, VC, MC ................................................................................................ 116 Private Thomas William Holmes, VC ..................................................................................................... 120 Lieutenant Samuel Lewis Honey, VC, DCM, MM .............................................................................. 122 Flight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell, VC, RCAF .......................................................................... 125 Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson, VC, MC ............................................................................. 128 Corporal Joseph Kaeble, VC, MM ........................................................................................................... 130 Lieutenant George Fraser Kerr, VC, MC*, MM .................................................................................. 133 Private John Chipman Kerr, VC .............................................................................................................. 135 Private Cecil John Kinross, VC ................................................................................................................ 137 Sergeant Arthur George Knight, VC ..................................................................................................... 139 Corporal Filip Konowal, VC ....................................................................................................................... 141 2 Major O‘Kill Massey Learmonth, VC ...................................................................................................... 145 Lieutenant Graham Thomson Lyall, VC ............................................................................................... 147 Captain Thain Wendell MacDowell, VC, DSO ..................................................................................... 150 Captain John MacGregor, VC, MC*, DCM ........................................................................................... 153 Major John Keefer Mahony, VC ............................................................................................................... 156 Lieutenant George Burdon McKean, VC, MC, MM ............................................................................ 159 Lieutenant Hugh McDonald McKenzie, VC, DCM .............................................................................. 162 Lieutenant Alan Arnett McLeod, VC, RFC ............................................................................................ 164 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, VC .................................................................. 171 Lance Corporal William Henry Metcalf, VC, MM ............................................................................... 174 Private William Johnstone Milne, VC..................................................................................................... 176 Corporal Harry Garnet Bedford Miner, VC .......................................................................................... 178 Captain Coulson Norman Mitchell, VC, MC ......................................................................................... 180 Sergeant George Harry Mullin, VC, MM ............................................................................................... 183 Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski, VC, RCAF ........................................................................... 185 Lieutenant William H. Snyder Nickerson, VC, CB, CMG ...............................................................