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VC1216    The Reverend John Weir Foote

Name   The Reverend John Weir Foote   No.      

VC Issue No.   1216   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Australian Military Forces, 2nd/48th (South Australia) Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Honorary Captain

Rank End Of Career   Major

Place Of Birth   Madoc, Ontario, Canada

Place Of Death   Norwood, Ontario, Canada

Buried/Location Ashes   St Andrew's Presbyterian Churchyard (Union Cemetery), Coburg, Ontario, Canada

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone     Plot/Grave no.  

Gazetted    14 February 1945

VC Presented   28 March 1946, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Andrew's Presbyterian Churchyard (Union Cemetery), Coburg, Ontario, Canada

P  Major John Foote Armoury, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

P  Memorial Plaque,  Major John Foote Armoury, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

P  Named on Raid on Dieppe Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Name on Memorial Bench, Ulster Tower, Tiepval, France

Memorial Plaque, Thomas Thompson Memorial Park, St Lawrence Street,, East Madoc, Ontario, Canada

Memorial Plaque, Victoria Cross Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

P  Victoria Cross Memorial, York Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Display at Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage Museum, Ontario, Canada

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VC Held By

Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage Museum, Ontario, Canada

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BORN    5 May 1904

DIED   2 May 1988   AGE   83

VC Won   19 August 1942    AGE    38

Place VC Won   Dieppe, France

War/Campaign   Second World War