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By EARLE HOOKEF EATON. loROfO the areat arorM war -tin fiabtlnx men won the Tto- | tort* Croaa. Of the airty-E-re. sixtrwere aoMiers; the lirty-fifth was a r. The Victoria Cross, the moct | eoeeted decomean awarded by Great Britain to her heroes. Is not e* -ily wan. Of the sixty-fire, twenty-fire are dead. One was awarded the T. <L ^twa j after be disappeared during a battle and was officially described as “preid." Other* were hilled in the very act t won for them the edaa and the bit of dark rod ribbon; yet others died of a Of the slrty-Eva, two at least were boys from the United Btaten 8ergL George JJaUtn. Y. G. ML JLPrincess Pan. New York; Lance Corporal William H Metcalf. V. C- M. JL, 1 Waite. Me. The croaa." aald Queen YWtorta. when she laatttattd the new decocatloa In 1*53. "shall only be awarded to tboae officers and men who served us In the presence of the enemy and shall hare-performed some signal act of valor or devotion to their SUty-tve C

far a few weeks own against the greatest fighting world evernaw; and woa the Victoria Crass! An additional 15R00 Canadians were awarded other British decorations and boeora. and 619 won foreign decora tioov from Prance. Belgium. Serbia. Italy. Honunegro and

About the only form of eoteiUlnment that escaped the war tax U O murder trial. The home gardener always plant* a lot of stuff that no nember of hi* family eats. too.

nurses with the Canadian expeditionary forces, and hundreds of

Many a soldier finds that the rtianga to civilian life U chiefly notable for the leek of It

Gardeners should bear In mind that one may sow vegetable seed and reap a harvest pf weeds.

W iwsi will the small boy learn that things can be dooe la book* that are Impossible elsewhere? ^ Another reason for buytay coal now Is that one has a better chi .ace to get ft paid for before burning I -

Apparently a lot af p-oplo can talk across the Atlantic. UaveoT certain people talked too •n-uh already? A lot more f-U would object to the fixing of maximum prices If they were bog rainert, instead of consumers. Japce Is taking another long «»ep to* .id the higher rtvUliatloc la abol tolling Its opitur monopoly In Oilne.

While lovely woman U -limbing back into hobbU skirt>■ *ie world l» striving earneatly t dWard Its other Uob-

Amoag other occapatluos that no longer exist In a grant part of the world to that of after-dinner speak-

A retebrated automobile expert writes that a bent rim s^prteas the life of a tire. 8... for that matter, does a tack.

The returned soldier can forgive a reception the stweoee of braaa bands snd everything provided It ha* a Job

The . ■n Interprrtattoo of the deportatloa law are thoea who wtab to know ;cat how far they can go without going too far.

It la hoped that Indlff-rrnce to aircraft development wilt not go far as to Interfere with the moat modern bran-b of ibe I'nlted Slates portal

It areata almost like old times when one rands alnat the defeat of Villa by Mtslcni. federal troops, hot the ivpnrta trill not be coorinrtng until the genial I»ancbo begin* to lose a few

—n>« Plying Petrol" la suggerted as a name for the Uritlab airplane «l ich nM) of may oot bedt Atbericmna in the ocean flight nsalry. A little oonamae. n«, w -nd (ben. la tvUahcd by tt.- wlaeat

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a warded the Military Medal, forty-three the Royal Red Croaa. first class, and one hundred and forty-nine the Boynl Bed Croaa. second daaa. Canada built SJMb airplane* for the royal air for-c tod was building bombing planes for the Vtilled Staten when the artnlxticc was signed. About 1SR00 men were rulisted In the royal atr force from Canada, and three Oanadian air fighters woo the Victoria Croaa The best known of the trio It Lieut Col. WilUam A. Bishop of Toronto. alio was a cavalryman in the Mississauga Horse and went overseas with the horses, but got transferred te the flying corpo. Bishop i* off dally credited with aeveoty-two and unofficial)y credited with one hundred and teo -nemy alr-p'-ncs, and I* called the world's greatest living see. King George sent for him and awarded him the Victoria Croaa. the Dlsdnguiabed Service Order and the Military Croae Next la repotatloo Is MaJ. IV. G. Barker. Y. C_ D. S. O- M CI. a royal air force fighter from Manitoba Ha was given the Victoria Croaa. Dt*tlngulahed Service Order, with bar. and tt* MU1tary Croas. with two bars. His grand total Is fifty eoem> tusrbtae* According to Colooel Bishop, the pluckiest air fight of the war was that of Lieut. Alan Arnett McLeod. V. C_ a royal air force pilot from Stonewall. Manitoba. This dgbteeo-year-old boy. attacked by eight enemy airplanes, shot down three of them. He was wounded fire times, and then his machine ranght fire. Climbing oat on the left bottom plane be controlled hla falling airplane from the' side <»f the fuselage, landed In No Man's Iwnri rescued hla wounded observer from the biasing aircraft and was again woo tided by an enemy bomb. Shortly after hla return to Canada Md^od died of ixieumoata In Winnipeg. The first Canadian to sin the V. C. was a heroic surgeon. Capt. PrancU A. C. pcrUnger. of the Canadian army medical aervler. Color Sergeant Krvdertck W. Hall Eighth battalion. beard a call for help in No Man's Land, la the face of a very heavy enfilade fire Hall mode two attempt* at rescue. Aa be was llfrifag *h» jraunded man Halt was wounded mortally by a bullet through the bead He paid f>f the eovrtad Y. G. with hi* life. So did Lance forjural Frederick Ftaber. Thirteenth battalion. At Givenchy. June 15. MU. Lieut. Frederick I W, Campbell. First Canadton battalion, went or-v j the t'<i> with t«o marine gun*, arrived at tbh German first line with ■>ne gun and maintained hi* position there under wry bea«> fire, though I every man In hl» detactiment had b«-o killed or j v i>unded. Lal -r 1h> »t-pp*d an enemy attack by I advaix-ing hla gun *tUI farther and firing 1.000 | round* from an e»|-»ed position. He • »• wounfiI ed mlwegurutly and died; tb* V. C. was porthumnuaiy awarded him. l*rivnte Leo Ctorhe. % r. Twmity *e«<«tli bat • talNni: iTtvnl* J-d>n atiipwab Kerr. V. C_ Hlxtyfifth battalion; Copt Tli»m w Marl»<rwei’. Y> C. and P S. ‘fhlrt) vlgbib ^•st•all«l 1 Ijeot. Krederick M W. Harvey, V. C.. Thlrtaaath hatiallooSU throe men perf»;vu«-i pr-itliri*» of 'alor in ktUing foe*. ‘-Uptur**; ;eu«»uera. et..-aiy trmrhaa and )*wlli»rit and laartilui guns. They earned their VkXorta -'roam-. Sergt. Ktts w. Hi ft no. V. F, rhargr.1 a :ua«h»oa gun «!■«>. killing *» <*«■ "*« * D ’ 1

rage, captured the abjective with only five men left, and took eighty prisoners. Then a German sniper got Mm. Death was the price paid, a too. by Capt Oklll fit Learmomh. V. C_ M. C_ Canadian Infantry, who, althongu mortally wounded. Mood on the top of the parapet at Ms trench and actually caught

determined attack.

After the Germans had repulsed three attacks, killing or wounding an Ms officers. Company .Sergeant Major Robert Hanna. Y. CL. Twonty-olnth

battalion, rushed the i

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rlvate Michael J. O’Rourke. Y. C„ Forty-sev-enth hat .*11 on. a atrrtcfcar bearer, worked unceasingly for three days and night* and perapaall} rtLcued three men under heavy fire from German

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Of Oorp. Philip KooosraL V. C_ Seveaty-aeventh battalion, who twmmany klUed sixteen German* and raptured two machine gun*; of IJect. Rol> ert Shankland. V. C. Forty-third balUUoa. who captured and held a porttloo. diapUyiag "amst conspicuous bravery and reaouree:" of Private John O. Pattteeo. V CL. On# Hundred and Thirty seventh battalion, who Jumped from shell bol* to shell hide untU wltMt. thirty yards of a taocMue gun. boobed the gunners and then bayooetted five survivors; of Sergt. Frederick Hobooo. V. C. Twentieth batulloo. who got a bortrd machine gun Into action and was killed while attacking the advancing enemy with a rifle to bold rhem until the gun ua* repaired, and of Private Harry Brown. V. CL C- M R~ regimental depot, aim oaved a captured porttfcm by carrying a msaaa** through a heavy banuge. although mortally wounded, hut little faa be aaid owing to apace

Although the aword U aappooed tn be ohaolete aa a fighting ieapan. Ltout Henry htrschan. V. C. M. C- Fort Garry Hank killed -even Gorman gunner, utth M» aabar. affonred a battery, cut wires lira miles hrtilad 'he eoeay* lines and brought back fifteen prisoner*. Capt. George K Peark**. Y. C, M. CL Fifth C M. It. although i-dlr ssoond^fl la the thigh, cap turvd and held a poslUoo a*»ln*t -ep-atod enemy attacka. Lieut. <-bri«u>*her P. J. O Kelly. V. C_ M. c. one Hundred and Forty fourth battalion, lad Ms men In two attacks which netted 111 prtr oners, sierra machine gun* and *tx "pill box*' ;" Oarp. Colin Bcrmo, Y. C, Third battalion, single hands* charged three machine gun*, killed four of the crew, •splured lb# remslnd.v and turue-i one cm UO the enemy ; Private Thomas «’■ Holm: ^ V. O. «toe Hundred and Farty-sevrath batta’Jon. acting alone, killed or wounded the crews of isro mscMne guns, thra bombed a "pill box" and raptured nineteen priaoOrre: Private Cecil J. Kinram. Y. 0_ Fifty first liattnH.>n. ad-vam-ml a tone It tieuad day tight over open ground •gains- an enemy taacblnr gun. kUlikg da tff the err* and d-rtroylng the *«»: Private Jatvea P. Rohlnana. V. CL Thirteenth *- M. It.. ru»!»J a machine gun. kbtod four of the crew luro-d U ue the enemy and Utar waa hlmmlf killed ebil • re* cuing a eounded man nmtor fire, and Ltont. Hugh

Mackenzie. V. CL. D. C M_ Canadian machine gun corp*. wiu killed while leading a frontal aitadc upon a -pUl N»x- after be had displayed cotmplcuou* Mr.very and leadi-ruMp. Among the other Victoria Crow winners whose valorous deeds cannot be described in detail bare were Lieut. Gordon M. Flowerdew, Lord Strathrana'a Horse: Lieu;. George B. McKean. Canadian Infantry; Corp. Joseph KaeMr. V. C_M.11.. Quobee regiment (kUled); Ueut. James E. Tail, Y. O. M. C_ Manitoba regiment (killed); Ueut. John Brilliant. Y. C- M. CL Quebec regimrat; SergL Raphael L. Zrag-i. V. C_ M M_ S.-k«tchewan regimrat: Corp. James G. Herman. Queoec reglmeat; Corp. Frederick G. Copptns. Mrnltoba regiment: Onryi. Alexander Brereton. Manitvba rtglmrat; Private John B. Creak. Queliec regimrat (killed): Sergt. Robert Spall, “princes* Pat**" (kUled): Corp. Harry O. B Mii^r. Cram.. On torlo regiment (killed) ; Sergt. Arthur C. Knight Alberta regimen: (killed); LUut Col. William H. Clsrk Kenn-dy. V. C_ C. M. 0. D. S. O. Twentyfourth battalion. Q R.; Capt. ReUraden S Hutcheooa. Seventy-fifth battalioa; Private John Fran ci» Young. aghtywerratU t«;UUoo. Q. R.; I»rtvate Walter L. Bayfield. Seventh hatuitao. B. C R.: iTlTBte Claude J. P. Nnnney. V. C_ D. C. M_ M. M_ Eaxteru Oulario regimrat; Capt. John Mats Greg.o-. Y. C_ D. C M_ W. C_ Secon.1 C. M. R_ First C O R.; Ueut. <»eo?*r F. Kerr. V. C_ M. C, M. M.. First COR.; Ueut Samuel L. Hooey. V. C. I». C. M.. M. N.. Berenty eighth battalioa. Man lt.4» rralmrat; Sergi. WUltom MerrifieM. Fourth battalion. C. 0. B.; Private Thomas Rickseta, First l>aitalb *i. Royal NewfoundUnd tegimrat Capt. Cotrtana K. Mitchell, v. c. M. c_ Fourth bai tabor.. Canadian epglnecr.; Ueut. Waltora L Algle. Taratletb battalioa. First a. O. R. (killed) Sergt. Haxti Calms. Y. C_ U. C. U K..ny sixth battalion. Kaokatchewan regt-aauL nnd Private Thomas INneaeo. Qo-bee regimrat. who n-Jt only won the V. C. by rhargiag Mugle-handc 1 five ma chine guns, one after another, putting thra out of «ci ion and ntr-mating for twelve of with homh and bayrart. but son a lleu'enancv oo tb. fi.-ld The only Canadian member of parUamrat who won the V. C. woa Ueut CoL Cyrus Utosiey Prcfc V. C.. O. * O, for awt raaqirauaa bravery der fire and skilful leadership Skeraa. British thdambta Ural. Charles R Kutberf..r t V. C„ M r y y Oasber regimrat. f.mnd b’.mself sloo* factog • Gorman “pRI box" raotalatog too officers forty

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Urat Graham T l.yall -ra. Hundred nnd Second Imitation, fierond C. O R.. during t * 0 days of ■H-ersUims nd raly inflirtnl ve., heavy «u Ualtles nu the rtiemy. but i-aptuted thlUe ••(beers one hundred nnd rtgbty-two mra iveunrts ma chin# tun. and one field gun U<- Wl)toi , r Gregfc -lanadUc Mounted Rifles Mtbragh tlTlra wmmdsd. psesonally kilted or wound.] rirvrarf the •-nemy. rapturol twenty five 0«d lo.k iwol*. tus hlnr gen*. twelve The oMy merraotile marl»e . awaidwt th- Victoria Oruaa duimg .he g,.. • »ar was Ural Ronald N htuart. V. C n s n the royal naval reserve • • xs_ A (hmadiaa piper. Prlvah Jam... |.,.. h r , Manitoba legimont. also u (h<, Vi • , r

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