Click below for full citation

VC912   Collin Fraser Barron

Name   Collin Fraser Barron   No.   404017

VC Issue No.   912   Awards   VC    

Regiment   3rd (Toronto) Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, D Company, CEF

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant-Major

Place Of Birth   Baldavie, Boyndie, Banffshire, Scotland

Place Of Death   Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Buried/Location Ashes   Prospect Cemetery, St Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Veterans Section 7, Grave 3562

Gazetted   11 January 1918

VC Presented   6 April 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Prospect Cemetery, St Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

By The Way…

After the war, he worked as a Prison Warden in Toronto

VC Held By

Not Known

NEXT

PREVIOUS

BORN   20 September 1895

DIED   15 August 1959    AGE   63

VC Won   6 November 1917   AGE   22

Place VC Won   Vine Cottage, Passchendaele, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917