Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, British Columbia Regiment, 47th (British Columbia) Battalion
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Acting Corporal
Rank End Of Career Acting Corporal
Place Of Birth Kedeski (Kutcowce), Podolsky (Podolskoy), Ukraine
Place Of Death The Veterans Pavillion, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ontario, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Notre Dame de Lourdes Cemetery, Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section A, Lot 502
Gazetted 26 November 1917
VC Presented 5 December 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Notre Dame de Lourdes Cemetery, Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Bronze Plaque, Royal Canadian Legion Building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Memorial Plaque, Cartier Square, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
P Memorial Plaque, St John the Baptist Ukrainian Church, Green Valley Crescent, Ottawa, Canada
Memorial Plaque, Drill Hall, Govenor-General's Foot Guards, Ottawa, Canada
Memorial Cairn, Selo Ukraina Memorial Park, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Memorial Plaque & Statue, Kutkiw, Ukraine
P Memorial Plaque, D943 Route de Bethune, Lens, France
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
The Victoria Cross was bought by the Canadian War Museum in 1969 from his widow, later it went missing in 1973 after it was removed for a photo session, reported missing by the museum in 2001 and seized by the RCMP on the 5 April 2004 from Jeffrrey Hoare Auctions, London, Ontario
He was found not guilty of killing a man on the grounds of insanity due to his war wounds in July 1919
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
