Tag: victoria-cross
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Private Thomas Ricketts Royal Newfoundland Regiment in the Great War
Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Pittman of Sops Island, White Bay, Newfoundland. Private Thomas Ricketts 4020 Killed-in-Action on the same day Sergeant Thomas Ricketts 3102, also of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, earned the Victoria Cross. SS MISSANABIE Private Thomas Ricketts 4020 attested 21 October 1917. Embarked St. John’s on SS MISSANABIE 11 December 1917. Embarked for…
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Captain Frederick William Campbell VC in the Great War
Captain Frederick William Campbell VC was born in Ormandie Township, just outside Mount Forest, Ontario on 15 June 1869. Only son of Ephraim B. and Esther A. Hunt Campbell, of Mount Forest; husband of Margaret Annie Campbell, of Mount Forest, Ontario. He served in the Boer War with the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, The Royal…
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Lieutenant-Colonel William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC in the Great War
William Hew Clark-Kennedy VC DSO CMC joined the 13th (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Battalion in 1914. During the Great War rose to command the 24th Infantry Battalion, CEF. Lieutenant-Colonel Clark-Kennedy four times mentioned in dispatches, and in addition received the Distinguished Service Order and bar. Furthermore, made a Companion of the Order of St Michael…
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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…