Thirty Canadian V.Cs. - 23rd April 1915 to 30th March 1918; by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Robin Richards, Stuart Martin; Compiled by the Canadian War Records Office
CONTENTS
Dedication
Introduction
Editor’s Note.
Lance-Corporal Frederick Fisher, 13th Battalion
Sergeant-Major F. W. Hall, 8th Battalion
Captain Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger, C.A.M.C.
Lieutenant F. W. Campbell, 1st Battalion
Corporal Leo Clarke, 2nd Battalion
Private John Chipman Kerr, 49th Battalion
Major T. W. Macdowell, 38th Battalion
Lieutenant Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, Lord Strathcona’s Horse.
Private William Johnstone Milne, 16th Battalion
Lance-Sergeant Ellis Welwood Sifton, 18th Battalion
Lieutenant Robert Grierson Combe, 27th Battalion
Captain William Avery Bishop, R.F.C. (Late Canadian Cavalry).
Private J. G. Pattison, 50th Battalion
Private Harry Brown, 10th Battalion
Company Sergeant-Major Robert Hanna, 29th Battalion
Sergeant Frederick Hobson, 20th Battalion
Private Michael James O’Rourke, 7th Battalion
Captain Okill Massey Learmonth, 2nd Battalion
Corporal Filip Konowal, 47th Battalion
Private Thomas William Holmes, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Christopher Patrick John O’kelly, 52nd Battalion
Captain (Acting Major) George Randolph Pearkes, M.C., 5th C.M.R.
Lieutenant Robert Shankland, 43rd Battalion
Private Cecil John Kinross, 49th Battalion
Lieutenant Hugh Mackenzie, Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Sergeant George Harry Mullin, M.M., P.P.C.L.I.
Private James Peter Robinson, 27th Battalion
Corporal Colin Barron, 3rd Battalion
Lieutenant Harcus Strachan, Fort Garry Horse
Lieutenant Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, Lord Strathcona’s Horse
Introduction
It is difficult to write an introductory in words to adequately do justice to the gallant deeds performed by our Canadians since the outbreak of the war in France and Belgium.
Canada’s Army has grown beyond all the expectations of the world, and glorious pages will be written, in future history, of the self-sacrifice of those true sons, many of whom have laid down their lives for the highest traditions of the British Empire.
No finer inspiration is needed for the future than the words of Corporal Joseph Kaeble, V.C., a French-Canadian, when mortally wounded in repelling a German attack--”Keep it up, boys! Don’t let them get through. We must stop them!”
To the Canadian V.Cs. of the Great War, and the many others deserving, this little volume is respectfully dedicated.
