Victoria Cross Recipients
The Victoria Cross is awarded for “the most conspicuous bravery, a daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty, in the presence of the enemy”
Lieutenant William Henry Snyder Nickerson VC, CB, CMG, RAMC
Awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry for his actions on April 20, 1900, at Wakkerstroom during the second Boer War. Nickerson was a 25 years old Canadian medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the Mounted Infantry, when his...
Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson, VC, MD, CAMC
Awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty at Queant - Drocourt on September 2, 1918, while attached to 75th (Mississauga) Bn., 1st Central Ontario Regt, Under when under most intense shell, machine-gun and rifle fire. without...
Corporal Frederick George Topham, VC
Awarder the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry on March 24, 1945, a medical orderly with the 1st Parachute Battalion. On March 24, 1945, Corporal Topham, a medical orderly, with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, parachuted on to a strongly defended area east...
Captain Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger, VC, MD, CAMC
Awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry while in charge of an advanced dressing station in a farmhouse near Wieltje on the St. Julien-Ypres Road, on April 25, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres. The advancing enemy were bombarding the area with an...