![]() ![]() Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski - Royal Canadian Air Force. Won the Victoria Cross August 19, 1942, at Dieppe, France. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt - The South Saskatchewan Regiment. ![]() Won the Victoria Cross May 24, 1944, at the Melfa River, Italy. Born in New Westminster, British Columbia. Major John Keefer Mahony - The Westminster Regiment. Won the Victoria Cross June 24, 1944, in the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom. Won the Victoria Cross February 16, 1944, at Maungdaw, Burma.įlight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell - Royal Canadian Air Force. Major Charles Ferguson Hoey - 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment. Won the Victoria Cross August 9, 1945, at Onagawa Wan, Japan. Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray - Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. Won the Victoria Cross on August 19, 1942, at Dieppe, France. Reverend John Weir Foote - Canadian Chaplain Services, The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. Won the Victoria Cross on August 18, 1944, at St. Major David Vivian Currie - The South Alberta Regiment. ![]() Won the Victoria Cross on February 25-26, 1945, at Mooshof, Germany. ![]() Sergeant Aubrey Cosens - Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Won the Victoria Cross on August 4, 1944, at St. These Canadian Victoria Cross recipients represent members of the navy, army, and the air force and earned the medals in theatres of war ranging from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, from Europe to Africa to the Far East. Second World War Victoria Cross Recipients Over the years, 98 Canadians have been awarded this very prestigious medal, 16 of them during the Second World War. It was introduced by Queen Victoria in 1856 as the premier award for military gallantry for a subject of the British Empire (and later for citizens in the British Commonwealth). The Victoria Cross is the highest award for military valour that can be won by a Canadian. ![]()
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