Mike Blais
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A ROYAL CANADIAN "NEVER PASSES A FAULT"
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Well, someone is going to be the first, hopefully, he will be a Royal Canadian who, God willing, survives the engagement.
New Canadian Victoria Cross unveiled
JOHN MCGRATH
Globe and Mail update
May 16, 2008 at 11:52 AM EDT
Ottawa — Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Governor-General Michaëlle Jean unveiled the Canadian Victoria Cross Friday morning, the military honour that will replace the last medal that Canadian soldiers accepted directly from the Queen.
The Canadian Victoria Cross replaces the Victoria Cross as the highest honour awarded to Canadian soldiers.
Described as a “somewhat simple” medal, its major changes from the British original include the addition of fleurs-de-lis, and the replacement of the words “For Valour” with the Latin “Pro Valore.”
The Victoria Cross has historically been an understated military honour, in contrast to the acts of “most conspicuous bravery” required to earn it.
Eighty-one members of the Canadian military have been awarded the honour since it was introduced in 1856. This included three soldiers who all lived on Pine Street in Winnipeg, which was later renamed Valour Road.
The last Canadian to be awarded the Victoria Cross was Lieutenant Robert Gray, who was recognized posthumously for sinking a Japanese warship before being shot down in the last days of the Second World War.
The unveiling of the new medal marks the end of what the Governor-General called “a magnificent story,” more than 15 years of research and design since the Queen gave her assent to the new medal in December, 1992.
The alloy of the new medal contains metal from the original Victoria Cross, the 1867 Confederation Medal and metal from all regions of Canada.
FYI
Canadian VC Recipients
Full citations to these awards are recorded in Valiant Men, Canadian War Museum Historical Publications, A.M. Hakkert Ltd.
Prior to the South African War (4)
DUNN, Alexander Robert
HALL, William
READE, Herbert Taylor
DOUGLAS, Campbell Mellis
The South African (Boer) War (5)
COCKBURN, Hampden Z.C.
HOLLAND, Edward J.G.
NICKERSON, William Henry Snyder
RICHARDSON, Arthur H.L.
TURNER, Richard E.W.
First World War (71)
ALGIE, Wallace Lloyd
BARKER, William George
BARRON, Colin Fraser
BELLEW, Edward Donald
BENT, Philip Eric
BISHOP, William Avery
BOURKE, Rowland R.L.
BRERETON, Alexander P.
BRILLANT, Jean
BROWN, Harry
CAIRNS, Hugh
CAMPBELL, Frederick W.
CLARKE, Leo
CLARK-KENNEDY, William Hew
COMBE, Robert Grierson
COPPINS, Frederick G.
CROAK, John Bernard
CRUICKSHANK, Robert Edward
De WIND, Edmund
DINESEN, Thomas
FISHER, Fred
FLOWERDEW, Gordon M.
GOOD, Herman James
GREGG, Milton Fowler
HALL, Frederick William
HANNA, Robert
HARVEY, Frederick M.W.
HOBSON, Frederick
HOLMES, Thomas William
HONEY, Samuel Lewis
HUTCHESON, Bellenden S.
KAEBLE, Joseph
KERR, George Fraser
KERR, John Chipman
KINROSS, Cecil John
KNIGHT, Arthur George
KONOWAL, Filip
LEARMONTH, Okill M.
LYALL, Graham Thomson
MacDOWELL, Thain W.
MacGREGOR, John
McKENZIE, Hugh
McKEAN, George Burdon
McLEOD, Alan Arnett
MERRIFIELD, William
METCALF, William Henry
MILNE, William Johnstone
MINER, Harry G.B.
MITCHELL, Coulson N.
MULLIN, George Harry
NUNNEY, Claude J.P.
O'KELLY, Christopher P.J.
O'LEARY, Michael
O'ROURKE, Michael James
PATTISON, John George
PEARKES, George Randolph
PECK, Cyrus Wesley
RAYFIELD, Walter Leigh
RICHARDSON, James C.
RICKETTS, Thomas
ROBERTSON, James Peter
RUTHERFORD, Charles S.
SCRIMGER, Francis A.C.
SHANKLAND, Robert
SIFTON, Ellis Wellwood
SPALL, Robert
STRACHAN, Harcus
TAIT, James Edward
WILKINSON, Thomas O.L.
YOUNG, Francis
ZENGEL, Raphael Louis
Second World War (16)
BAZALGETTE, Ian W.
COSENS, Aubrey
CURRIE, David Vivian
FOOTE, John Weir
GRAY, Robert Hampton
HOEY, Charles Ferguson
HORNELL, David Ernest
MAHONY, John Keefer
MERRITT, Charles C.I.
MYNARSKI, Andrew C.
OSBORN, John Robert
PETERS, Frederick Thornton
SMITH, Ernest Alvia
TILSTON, Frederick Albert
TOPHAM, Frederick George
TRIQUET, Paul
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