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VC1066 Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson
David
Name Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson No.
VC Issue No. 1066 Awards VC MC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Army Medical Corps attached to 75th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Mount Carmel, Illinois, USA
Place Of Death Cairo, Illinois, USA
Buried/Location Ashes Rosehill Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Illinois, USA
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section B, Lot 145, Grave C
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 22 May 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Rosehill Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Illinois, USA
Memorial Plaque, Mount Carmel Court House, Mount Carmel, Illinois, USA
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 Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC Armoury, Birmingham Street, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
P Memorial Plaque, Dury Crucifix Cemetery, Dury, Pas-de-Calais, France
P Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
He gave up his American Citizenship, to join the Canadian Army as a Medical Officer, after the war he reclaimed his American Citizenship and went back to his medical work
VC Held By
York Armoury, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BORN 16 December 1883
DIED 9 April 1954 AGE 70
VC Won 2 September 1918 AGE 34
Place VC Won East of Arras, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
