List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients
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This is a list of Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest war honour of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. It was presented to almost a hundred Canadians between its creation soon after the Crimean War and 1993 (though no Canadian has been awarded the honour since 1945. As of 1993 Canadians were no longer eligible for the British Victoria Cross as the medal was replaced with a new Canadian VC (this award has not yet been awarded, however). In appearance it is identical to the British one except the words are in Latin rather than English, as a compromise as both French and English could not easily fit on the medal.
Note: Newfoundlanders who were awarded the Victoria Cross prior to 1949 are listed under List of Newfoundlander Victoria Cross recipients.
- Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith is the only living Canadian recipient.
Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Wallace Lloyd Algie - 1918; Cambrai, France
B
- William George Barker - 1918; Foret de Mormal, France
- Colin Fraser Barron - 1917; Passchendaele, Belgium
- Ian Willoughby Bazalgette - 1944; Trossy St. Maximin, France
- Edward Donald Bellew - 1915; Kerselaere, Belgium
- Philip Eric Bent - 1917; Polygon Wood, Belgium
- William Avery Bishop - 1917; Cambrai, France
- Roland Richard Louis Bourke - 1918; Ostend, Belgium
- Alexander Picton Brereton - 1918; Amiens, France
- Jean Brillant - 1918; Meharicourt, France
- Harry Brown - 1917; Loos, France
C
- Hugh Cairns - 1918; Valenciennes, France
- Frederick William Campbell - 1915; Givenchy, France
- Leo Clarke - 1916; Pozieres, France
- William Hew Clark-Kennedy - 1918; Fresnes, France
- Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn - 1900; Komati River, South Africa (in the Boer War)
- Robert Grierson Combe - 1917; Acheville, France
- Frederick George Coppins - 1918; Hackett Woods, France
- Aubrey Cosens - 1945; Mooshof, Germany
- John Bernard Croak - 1918; Amiens, France
- Robert Edward Cruickshank - 1918; Jordan, Palestine
- David Vivian Currie - 1944; Battle of Falaise, France
D
- Edmund De Wind - 1918; Groagie, France
- Thomas Dinesen - in World War I; although a Danish citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army he is considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- Campbell Mellis Douglas - 1867; Little Andaman, India
- Alexander Roberts Dunn - 1854; Balaclava, Crimea (at the Battle of Balaclava)
F
- Frederick Fisher - 1915; St. Julien, Belgium
- Gordon Muriel Flowerdew - 1918; Bois de Moreuil, France
- John Weir Foote - 1942; Dieppe, France
G
- Herman James Good - 1918; Hangard Wood, France
- Robert Hampton Gray - 1945; Honshu, Japan
- Milton Fowler Gregg - 1918; Cambrai, France
H
- Frederick William Hall - 1915; Ypres, Belgium
- William Hall - 1857; Lucknow, India (in the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
- Robert Hill Hanna - 1917; Lens, France
- Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey - 1917; Guyencourt, France
- Frederick Hobson - 1917; Lens, France
- Charles Ferguson Hoey - 1944; Ngakyedauk Pass, Burma (now Myanmar)
- Edward James Gibson Holland - 1900; Komati River, South Africa
- Thomas William Holmes - 1917; Passchendaele, Belgium
- Samuel Lewis Honey - 1918; Bourlon Wood, France
- David Ernest Hornell - 1944; Faroes, Atlantic
- Bellenden Hutcheson - in World War I; although an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army, he is considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
K
- Joseph Kaeble - 1918; Neuville-Vitasse, France
- George Fraser Kerr - 1918; Bourlon Wood, France
- John Chipman Kerr - 1916; Courcelette, France
- Cecil John Kinross - 1917; Passchendaele, Belgium
- Arthur George Knight - 1918; Villers-les-Cagnicourt, France
- Filip Konowal - in World War I; although a Ukrainian citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army, he is considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
L
- Okill Massey Learmonth - 1917; Loos, France
- Graham Thomson Lyall - 1918; Cambrai, France
M
- Thain Wendell MacDowell - 1917; Vimy Ridge, France
- John MacGregor - 1918; Cambrai, France
- John Keefer Mahony - 1944; River Melfa, Italy
- George Burdon McKean - 1918; Gavrelle Sector, France
- Hugh McKenzie - 1917; Meetscheele Spur, Belgium
- Alan Arnett McLeod - 1918; Albert, France
- William Merrifield - 1918; Abancourt, France
- Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt - 1942; Dieppe, France
- William Metcalf - in World War I; although an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army, he is considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- William Johnstone Milne - 1917; Thelus, France
- Harry Garnet Bedford Miner - 1918; Demuin, France
- Coulson Norman Mitchell - 1918; Canal de L'Escaut, France
- George Mullin - in World War I; although an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army, he is considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- Andrew Charles Mynarski - 1944; Cambrai, France
N
- William Henry Snyder Nickerson - 1900; Wakkerstroom, South Africa (in the Boer War)
- Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney - 1918; Drocourt-Queant Line, France
O
- Christopher Patrick John O'kelly - 1917; Passchendaele, Belgium
- Michael O'Leary - 1915; Cuinchy, France
- Michael James O'Rourke - 1917; Hill 60, France
- John Robert Osborn - 1941; Mount Butler, Hong Kong
P
- John George Pattison - 1917; Vimy Ridge, France
- George Randolph Pearkes - 1917; Passchendaele, Belgium
- Cyrus Wesley Peck - 1918; Cagnicourt, France
- Frederick Thornton Peters - 1942; Oran, Algeria
R
- Walter Leigh Rayfield - 1918; Arras, France
- Herbert Taylor Reade - 1857; Delhi, India (in the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
- Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson - 1900; Wolwespruit, South Africa (in the Boer War)
- James Cleland Richardson - 1916; Somme, France
- James Peter Robertson - 1917; Passchendaele, Belgium
- Charles Smith Rutherford - 1918; Monchy, France
S
- Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger - 1915; St. Julien, Belgium
- Robert Shankland - 1917; Passchendaele, Belgium
- Ellis Welwood Sifton - 1917; Neuville-St.-Vaast, France
- John Alexander Sinton - 1916; Orah Ruins, Mesopotamia
- Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith - 1944; River Savio, Italy
- Robert Spall - 1918; Parvillers, France
- Harcus Strachan - 1917; Masnieres, France
T
- James Edward Tait - 1918; Amiens, France
- Frederick Albert Tilston - 1945; Hochwald Forest, Germany
- Frederick George Topham - 1945; Rhine, Germany
- Paul Triquet - 1943; Casa Berardi, Italy
- Richard Ernest William Turner - 1900; Komati River, South Africa (in the Boer War)
W
- Thomas Orde Lauder Wilkinson - 1916; La Boiselle, France
Y
- John Francis Young - 1918; Dury-Arras Sector, France
Z
- Raphael Zengel - in World War I; although an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army, he is considered Canadian at the time he won the medal