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VC799 John George Pattison
Name John George Pattison No. 808887
VC Issue No. 799 Awards VC
Regiment Canadian Expeditionary Force, Alberta Regiment (Calgary Regiment), 50th Battalion
Later
Now The Kings Own Calgary Regiment
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Woolwich, London, England
Place Of Death Lieven, near Lens, France
Buried/Location Ashes La Chaudiere Military Cemetery, Vimy, 7 miles north of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 6, Row C, Grave 14
Gazetted 2 August 1917
VC Presented 10 April 1918 by Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta (Brett) at Victory Park, Calgary, Canada to his widow, Sophia Louise Ann
Memorials
P Headstone, La Chaudiere Military Cemetery, Vimy, 7 miles north of Arras, Pas de Calais, France
P Named On War Memorial, St James Church, Hatcham, New Cross, South London
Named On Honours Board, Old Deptford Town Hall, New Cross Road, New Cross, South London
P Named On Victoria Cross Mural, Lewisham Shopping Center, Lewisham, South London
P Named On Memorial, Lewisham Civic Centre, South London
P Victoria Cross Memorial, By War Memorial, High Street South, Lewisham, South London
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Pattison Mountain, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada
Pattison Bridge, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
By The Way…
A Mountain named for him in Alberta, Canada, not bad for a boy from Deptford
VC Held By
Glenbow Museum, 130 - 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BORN 8 September 1875
DIED 3 June 1917 AGE 41
VC Won 10 April 1917 AGE 41
Place VC Won Vimy Ridge, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917
