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VC1114 Coulson Norman Mitchell
Name Coulson Norman Mitchell No.
VC Issue No. 1114 Awards VC MC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company, 4th Battalion, D Company
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Ross Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Place Of Death At his home, Mount Royal, Quebec, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Field of Honour Cemetery, Pointe-Claire, 703 Donegani, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 21 November 1978
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section M, Grave 3051
Gazetted 31 January 1919
VC Presented 3 April 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Field of Honour Cemetery, Pointe-Claire, 703 Donegani, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
P Memorial Stone at Site of Action, Escaudoeuvres, Cambrai, France
P Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Norman Mitchell VC Branch, Royal Canadian Legion, Montreal, Quebec, 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 Mitchell Avenue, Mount Royal, Quebec, Canada
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
He spent all his working life in Engineering, he was a University Graduate in Engineering, Canadian Engineers during the war, Civil Engineering between the wars, Royal Canadian Engineers world war 2 and beyond, then Civil Engineering till he retired
VC Held By
Royal Canadian Engineers Museum, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
BORN 11 December 1889
DIED 17 November 1978 AGE 88
VC Won 8-9 October 1918 AGE 28
Place VC Won Near Cambrai, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
