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VC1093 Samuel Lewis Honey
Name Samuel Lewis Honey No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1093 Awards VC DCM MM
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, 78th (Winnipeg Grenadiers) Battalion, Manitoba Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Conn, near Mount Forest, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
Place Of Death Bourlon Wood, France
Buried/Location Ashes Queant Communal Cemetery British Extension, 12 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Row C, Grave 36
Gazetted 6 January 1919
VC Presented Forwarded to Canada and posted on 27 March 1919 by the Govenor-General of Canada to his father, reverend George H
Memorials
P Headstone, Queant Communal Cemetery British Extension, 12 miles south-east of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
P Ring of Remembrance (L'Anneau de la Mémoire), Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Memorial Plaque, Valour Square, Cambridge Armoury, Ontario, Canada
Memorial Plaque, Royal Canadian Legion Hall, King Street, Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada
P Honey Street, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
Before the war he was teaching, and one of his posts was at the Six Nations Indian Reserve, Ontario.
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BORN 9 February 1894
DIED 30 September 1918 AGE 24
VC Won 27 September 1918 AGE 24
Place VC Won Bourlon Wood, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
