Tag: military-cross
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Major Talbot Mercer Papineau MC in the Great War
The Soul of Canada You know, Hughie? This is suicide. The Greatest Prime Minister of Canada – not! Talbot Mercer Papineau MC had it all. Intelligent, charming, athletic, dashingly handsome, affluent, with a biting-sense of black humour; this fluently-bilingual Anglo/French-Canadian with a deep love for Canada destined to be the Greatest Prime Minister of Canada.…
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Captain William Henry Davis MC in the Great War
During the Great War, 524 clergymen served in the Canadian Chaplain Service. Of this number 447 served overseas, and a number of those chaplains served with distinction, such as George Anderson Wells, an Anglican priest, who finished the war as the most decorated chaplain in the British Commonwealth. Other chaplains who paid the supreme sacrifice,…
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Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC, MC, in the Great War
Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson was a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School. In 1915, he renounced his United States citizenship in order to join the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Attached to the 75th (Mississauga) Battalion, Hutcheson earned the Military Cross and the Victoria Cross during Canada’s Last Hundred Days. In 1920, he reclaimed his American…