Victoria Cross Recipients

Piper (Private) James Cleland Richardson

16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) CEF

Regina Trench 8 October 1916 (Posthumous)

 

Buried in Adanac Military Cemetery, France

 

Medals at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario

Corporal William Henry Metcalf, MM

16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) CEF

Arras 2 September 1918

 

Buried in Eastport, Maine, USA

 

Medals at The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) Regimental Museum in Victoria, British Columbia

 

Note: One of only six Americans to receive the Victoria Cross

Private William Johnstone Milne

16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) CEF

Vimy Ridge 9 April 1917 (Posthumous)

 

No known grave, name on the Vimy Memorial, France

 

Medals at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario

Colonel Cyrus Wesley Peck, DSO

16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) CEF

Villers-lez-Cagnicourt 2 September 1918

 

Cremated and ashes spread off the coast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia; marker in New Westminster, BC

 

Medals at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario

 

Possibly the only Member of Parliament in the British Empire/Commonwealth to receive the Victoria Cross while elected to office. Peck was elected to Canada’s House of Commons in 1917.