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VC869   Robert Hill Hanna

Name   Robert Hill Hanna   No.   75361   

VC Issue No.   869   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Canadian Expeditionary Force, British Columbia Regiment, 29th  (Vancouver) Battalion, B Company

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Acting Company Sergeant-Major

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Aughnahoory, Kilkeel, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

Place Of Death   Mount Lehman, British Columbia, Canada

Buried/Location Ashes   The Masonic Cemetery, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 49, Section C, Grave 2

Gazetted   8 November 1917

VC Presented   5 December 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, The Masonic Cemetery, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Memorial Plaque, on War Memorial, Kilkeel, Co. Down, Northern Ireland

P  Named on Orange Order Memorial Bench, Helen's Tower, Ulster Tower, Thiepval, France

P  Memorial Bench, Outside Regimental Museum, Beatty Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Memorial Plaque, Chemin Des Croisettes, Loos-En-Gohelle, France

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

By The Way…

He emigrated to Canada from Ireland, and worked in the logging industry before and after the war

VC Held By

Held by Family

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BORN   6 August 1887

DIED   15 June 1967   AGE   79

VC Won   21 August 1917   AGE   30

Place VC Won   Lens, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1917