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VC1134 William George Barker
Name William George Barker No.
VC Issue No. 1134 Awards VC DSO & Bar MC & 2 Bars
Regiment Royal Air Force, No. 201 Squadron
Later
Now
Rank VC Won A/Major
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
Place Of Death Rockville, RCAF Air Station Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Buried/Location Ashes Mount Pleasant Cemetery and Mausoleum, Inglewood Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 15 March 1930
Headstone Tomb Plot/Grave no. Mausoleum, Terrace B, Crypt B (Smith Family Crypt)
Gazetted 30 November 1918
VC Presented 1 March 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Crypt, Mount Pleasant Cemetery and Mausoleum, Inglewood Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Memorial Plaque outside Crypt, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Memorial outside Mausoleum, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Named on RAF Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
P Named on the Airmens Memorial, University Avenue,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
P Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, 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 Canadian Victoria Cross Memorial, Barrie Military Heritage Park, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
He was killed when the Fairchild aircraft he was demonstrating crashed, in Ottawa, Canada
VC Held By
Canadian War Museum, 1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
BORN 3 November 1894
DIED 12 March 1930 AGE 35
VC Won 27 October 1918 AGE 23
Place VC Won Over the Foret de Mormal, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
