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VC796   Ellis Welwood Sifton

Name   Ellis Welwood Sifton   No.   53730   POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   796   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Canadian Expeditionary Force, Western Ontario Regiment, 18th Battalion, C Company

Later   

Now   The Essex And Kent Scottish Regiment

Rank VC Won   Lance Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Lance Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Wallacetown, Ontario, Canada

Place Of Death   Near Neuville-St-Vaast, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Lichfield Crater Cemetery, Thelus, 4 miles north of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Special wall memorial

Gazetted   8 June 1917

VC Presented   1 September 1917 by the Governor-General of Canada, Duke of Devonshire in Canada to his father, S J Sifton

Memorials

P  Named On Lichfield Crater Memorial to the Missing, Lichfield Crater Cemetery, Thelus, 4 miles north of Arras, Pas de Calais, France

Memorial Stone, St Peters Churchyard, County Road 15, Tyconnel, Wallacetown, Ontario, 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…

1 of 4 awarded the Victoria Cross for the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917

VC Held By

Elgin County Pioneer Museum, Ontario, Canada

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BORN   12 October 1891

DIED   9 April 1917   AGE   25

VC Won   9 April 1917   AGE   25

Place VC Won   Neuville-St-Vaast, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917