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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
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