WW1 Victoria Cross Winners

The Victoria Cross was established by Queen Victoria in 1856 as a decoration for exceptional bravery in the presence of the enemy. It was the highest award for bravery a soldier could attain. The following is a list of those Canadian soldiers who won this award during World War I.

  • Algie, Wallace Lloyd (1891-1918)
  • Barker, William George (1894-1930)
  • Barron, Colin Fraser (1893-1958)
  • Bellew, Edward Donald (1882-1961)
  • Brent, Philip Eric (1891-1917)
  • Bishop, William Avery (1894-1956)
  • Bourke, Rowland Richard Louis (1885-1958)
  • Breton, Alexander Picton (1892-1976)
  • Brillant, Jean (1890-1918)
  • Brown, Harry (1898-1917)
  • Cairns, Hugh (1896-1918)
  • Campbell, Frederick William (1867-1915)
  • Clark, Leo (1892-1916)
  • Clark-Kennedy, William Hew (1880-1961)
  • Combe, Robert Grierson (1880-1917)
  • Coppins, Frederick George (1889-1963)
  • Croak, John Bernard (1892-1918)
  • De Wind, Edmund (1883-1918)
  • Dinesen, Thomas (1892-1979)
  • Fisher, Fred (1894-1915)
  • Flowerdew, Gordon Muriel (1885-1918)
  • Good, Herman James (1887-1969)
  • Gregg, Milton Fowler (1892-1978)
  • Hall, Frederick William (1885-1915)
  • Hanna, Robert (1887-1967)
  • Harvey, Frederick Maurice Watson (1888-1980)
  • Hobson, Frederick (1875-1917)
  • Holmes, Thomas William (1898-1950)
  • Honey, Samuel Lewis (1894-1918)
  • Hutcheson, Bellenden Seymour (1883-1954)
  • Kaeble, Joseph (1893-1918)
  • Kerr, George Fraser (1894-1929)
  • Kerr, John Chipman (1887-1963)
  • Kinross, Cecil John (1896-1957)
  • Knight, Arthur George (1886-1918)
  • Konowal, Filip (1887-1959)
  • Learmonth, Okill Massey (1894-1917)
  • Lyall, Graham Thomson (1892-1941)
  • MacDowell, Thain Wendell (1890-1960)
  • MacGregor, John (1888-1952)
  • McKean, George Burdon (1888-1926)
  • MacKenzie, Hugh (1885-1917)
  • McLeod, Alan Arnett (1899-1918)
  • Merrifield, William (1890-1943)
  • Metcalf, William Henry (1885-1968)
  • Milne, William Johnstone (1892-1917)
  • Miner, Harry Garnet Bedford (1891-1918)
  • Mitchell, Coulson Norman (1889-1978)
  • Mullin, George (1892-1963)
  • Nunney, Claude (1892-1918)
  • O’Kelly, Christopher Patrick John (1895-1922)
  • O’Leary, Michael (1889-1961)
  • O’Rourke, Michael James (1878-1957)
  • Pattison, John George (1875-1917)
  • Pearkes, George Randolph (1888-1984)
  • Peck, Cyrus Wesley (1871-1956)
  • Rayfield, Walter Leigh (1881-1949)
  • Richardson, James Cleland (1895-1916)
  • Ricketts, Thomas (1901-1967)
  • Robertson, James Peter (1883-1917)
  • Rutherford, Charles Smith (1892-1989)
  • Scrimger, Francis Alexander Caron (1881-1937)
  • Shankland, Robert (1887-1968)
  • Sifton, Ellis Wellwood (1891-1917)
  • Spall, Robert (1890-1918)
  • Strachan, Harcus (1889-1982)
  • Tait, James Edward (1886-1918)
  • Train, Charles William (1890-1965)
  • Young, John Francis (1893-1929)
  • Zengel, Raphael Louis (1894-1977)

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