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VC1069 Cyrus Wesley Peck
David
Name Cyrus Wesley Peck No.
VC Issue No. 1069 Awards VC DSO & Bar
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force commanding 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion, Manitoba Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick, Canada
Place Of Death At his home, 'Hopewell', Sidney, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes New Westminster Crematorium, Vancouver, British Columbia (Fraser Cemetery, family plot) & buried at sea off Pacific coast of Prince Rupert Sound, British Columbia, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Range 23, Block 54, Lot B
Gazetted 15 November 1918
VC Presented 26 January 1919 by King George V at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Memorials
P Headstone, New Westminster Crematorium, Vancouver, British Columbia (Fraser Cemetery, family plot) & buried at sea off Pacific coast of Prince Rupert Sound, British Columbia, Canada
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 Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Memorial Plaque, Villers-les-Cagnicourt, Nr Arras, France
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
He was elected Unionist MP for Skeena, BC, and he sat in the Canadian House of Commons
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BORN 26 April 1871
DIED 27 September 1956 AGE 85
VC Won 2 September 1918 AGE 47
Place VC Won Cagnicourt, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
