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VC596 Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger
BORN 8 February 1880
DIED 13 February 1937 AGE 57
VC Won 25 April 1915 AGE 35
Place VC Won Near St. Julien, Belgium
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Francis Alexander Carron Scrimger No.
VC Issue No. 596 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Army Medical Corps attached to 14th Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Redpath Crescent, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Place Of Death At his home, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Cimitiere Mont-Royal (Mount Royal Cemetery), 1297 Chemin de la Foret, Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section M-2, Grave 727
Gazetted 23 June 1915
VC Presented 21 July 1915 by King George V at Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace
Memorials
P Headstone, Cimitiere Mont-Royal (Mount Royal Cemetery), 1297 Chemin de la Foret, Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Path at Field of Honour Cemetery, 703 Donegani, Pointe-Claire, Montreal, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
After his VC action he worked in a variety of hospitals, in England and in Boulogne, France, until returning back to Canada in 1919.
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
