Canada & the Victoria Cross Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/canada-and-the-victoria-cross/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 15:42:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Canada & the Victoria Cross Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/canada-and-the-victoria-cross/ 32 32 Stuff of legend: ingredients that make the Victoria Cross https://legionmagazine.com/stuff-of-legend-ingredients-that-make-the-victoria-cross/ https://legionmagazine.com/stuff-of-legend-ingredients-that-make-the-victoria-cross/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:57:44 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=66467 Everyone knows what a Victoria Cross recipient is made of. But what about the Victoria Cross itself? Instituted by Queen Victoria at the end of the Crimean War, it has long been believed that the British Empire’s highest award for valour was originally made from bronze taken from Russian cannons captured at Sevastopol in 1855. …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/stuff-of-legend-ingredients-that-make-the-victoria-cross/feed/ 0 The mystery of the Thames Victoria Cross https://legionmagazine.com/the-mystery-of-the-thames-victoria-cross/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-mystery-of-the-thames-victoria-cross/#respond Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:20:30 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=65899 In December 2015, a “mudlark” treasure-hunting along the bank of the Thames River in southern England found a corroded metal cross buried in the ooze exposed at low tide. His name was Tobias Neto, and the hunk of rusty metal was none other than a Victoria Cross. Or was it? “It was covered in mud,” …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-mystery-of-the-thames-victoria-cross/feed/ 0 Valour To The End: Part 18 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/valour-to-the-end/ https://legionmagazine.com/valour-to-the-end/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:26:26 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=177 ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients David Vivian Currie, Aubrey Cosens, Frederick Albert Tilston and Frederick George Topham. During the World War II campaign in Northwest Europe, which lasted from D-Day, June 6, 1944, until the German surrender in May 1945, four Canadian soldiers–David Vivian Currie, Aubrey Cosens, Frederick Albert Tilston …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/valour-to-the-end/feed/ 0 The Airmen of '44: Part 17 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/the-airmen-of-44/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-airmen-of-44/#respond Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:27:56 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=178 ILLUSTRATIONs: Sharif Tarabay From top: Victoria Cross recipients Andrew Charles Mynarski, David Ernest Hornell, and Ian Willoughby Bazalgette. All three Canadian airmen awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II were cited for their valour within two months of each other during the summer of 1944–all of them posthumously. They were Andrew Charles Mynarski, on …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-airmen-of-44/feed/ 0 Three In Italy: Part 16 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/three-in-italy/ https://legionmagazine.com/three-in-italy/#respond Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:28:57 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=179 ILLUSTRATIONS: Sharif Tarabay From top: Victoria Cross recipients Paul Triquet, John Keefer Mahony and Ernest Alvia Smokey Smith. As a result of the Allied conquest of Sicily in July and August 1943, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown. Although the new Italian government surrendered on Sept. 3, the Germans immediately seized control of the mainland. …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/three-in-italy/feed/ 0 Hong Kong, Dieppe And Burma: Part 15 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/hong-kong-dieppe-and-burma/ https://legionmagazine.com/hong-kong-dieppe-and-burma/#comments Mon, 01 May 2006 15:29:43 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=180 ILLUSTRATIONs: Sharif Tarabay Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients John Robert Osborn, Charles Ferguson Hoey, Charles Cecil Merritt and John Weir Foote. In addition to the Victoria Cross earned by Hammy Gray just days before World War II ended (Valour In The Navy, March/April), there were two other Canadian VCs awarded for valour in …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/hong-kong-dieppe-and-burma/feed/ 1 Valour In The Navy: Part 14 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/valour-in-the-navy/ https://legionmagazine.com/valour-in-the-navy/#respond Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:30:25 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=181 ILLUSTRATIONS: Sharif Tarabay From top: Victoria Cross recipients Rowland Richard Louis Bourke, Robert Hampton Gray and Frederick Thornton Peters. All three Canadian naval recipients of the Victoria Cross earned the decoration while serving with the Royal Navy. One was for bravery in World War I, the other two were made for actions in WW II. …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/valour-in-the-navy/feed/ 0 Securing Victory: Part 13 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/securing-victory/ https://legionmagazine.com/securing-victory/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:31:24 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=182 ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Top row from left: Victoria Cross recipients George Fraser Kerr, Graham Thomson Lyall and Milton Gregg; Middle row from left: Samuel Lewis Honey, John MacGregor and William Merrifield; Bottom row from left: Wallace Lloyd Algie, Coulson Norman Mitchell, Thomas Ricketts and Hugh Cairns. Following the capture of the Drocourt-Quéant Line, the Allies …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/securing-victory/feed/ 1 The Magnificent Seven: Part 12 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/the-magnificent-seven/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-magnificent-seven/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:32:05 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=183 ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients Claude Nunney, William Metcalf, Arthur Knight, John Young, Walter Rayfield, Bellenden Hutcheson and Cyrus Wesley Peck. Sept. 2, 1918, stands out as a red-letter day for Canada and the Victoria Cross. On that date, seven men earned the VC while fighting with Canadian units east …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-magnificent-seven/feed/ 2 On The Offensive In 1918: Part 11 of 18 https://legionmagazine.com/on-the-offensive-in-1918/ https://legionmagazine.com/on-the-offensive-in-1918/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:32:42 +0000 http://192.168.1.2:8080/?p=184 The only award of the Victoria Cross to a Canadian in World War I outside the European theatre stems from heroic action in the Middle East in May 1918. It happened during a vicious battle for the occupation of Jerusalem and the capture of Jericho from the Turks. ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY From left to right …

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