by Wayne Dauphinee | Apr 21, 2023 | Victoria Cross
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...
by Wayne Dauphinee | Apr 21, 2023 | Victoria Cross
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...
by Wayne Dauphinee | Apr 21, 2023 | Victoria Cross
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...
by Wayne Dauphinee | Apr 21, 2023 | Victoria Cross
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...
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