A VC Cluster

[54/102 CEF]

Nelson BC is the home of my website on the 54th Bn CEF.

Its also the home of Hampton Gray VC, Roland Bourke VC and for years it never clicked that there`s a third RN VC, Capt Frederick Peters (they are all RN or RN Reserves)

The three are remembered today on BC Geographical names which you can link to here, http://www.54thbattalioncef.ca/WARPAGES/geographic.htm

Gray`s VC is the most actively remembered in the local area despite Bourke having lived there before and after WW1. Peters was the son of a Premier of PEI who`s family ended up in Nelson. He wrote he`d actually never visited the area but his mother was presented with the Unites States Distinguished Service Cross in Nelson. Peter`s exploits are featured in the book ARMY AT DAWN by Rick Atkinson http://www.anarmyatdawn.com/ - what throws you off is he`s portrayed as a Brit which is to be expected since he served from a young age in the RN and won numerous awards in WW1.

You can read about all three here http://www.54thbattalioncef.ca/WARPAGES/geographic.htm

Enjoy!

 

[Emenince Grise]

Nelson BC is the home of my website on the 54th Bn CEF.

Its also the home of Hampton Gray VC, Roland Bourke VC and for years it never clicked that there`s a third RN VC, Capt Frederick Peters (they are all RN or RN Reserves)

The three are remembered today on BC Geographical names which you can link to here, http://www.54thbattalioncef.ca/WARPAGES/geographic.htm

Owen Sound, Ontario is also the home of three VC winners (at least they are all buried there; Curries is originally from Saskatchewan).  AM Billy Bishop, Major David Currie and Sgt. Tommy Holmes. Their graves are well-marked in the city's Greenwood Cemetery.

Are there any other VC "clusters" in Canada?

 

[armyvern]

Ahhhh, I remembered the "Valour Road" vignettes that used to play on the tele:

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do;jsessionid=D7013FD2814AB55FD034331A446007A0.tomcat1?id=10192

Winnipeg's Pine Street. 3 on one street, wow, amazing. That's quite the cluster.

 

[IN HOC SIGNO]

Nelson BC is the home of my website on the 54th Bn CEF.

Its also the home of Hampton Gray VC, Roland Bourke VC and for years it never clicked that there`s a third RN VC, Capt Frederick Peters (they are all RN or RN Reserves)

The three are remembered today on BC Geographical names which you can link to here, http://www.54thbattalioncef.ca/WARPAGES/geographic.htm

Gray`s VC is the most actively remembered in the local area despite Bourke having lived there before and after WW1. Peters was the son of a Premier of PEI who`s family ended up in Nelson. He wrote he`d actually never visited the area but his mother was presented with the Unites States Distinguished Service Cross in Nelson. Peter`s exploits are featured in the book ARMY AT DAWN by Rick Atkinson http://www.anarmyatdawn.com/ - what throws you off is he`s portrayed as a Brit which is to be expected since he served from a young age in the RN and won numerous awards in WW1.

You can read about all three here http://www.54thbattalioncef.ca/WARPAGES/geographic.htm

Enjoy!

The old elementary school at Shearwater, now the home of the MFRC, Language School and Chaplain's Offices is named after Hampton-Gray. The RCNs only VC...he was actually a RCNVR not RNVR.

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/citations/gray

 

[kratz]

The building that HMCS QUEEN CHARLOTTE operates from since 1999 is named after Capt Frederick Thornton Peters on the waterfront of Charlottetown, PEI.

 

[54/102 CEF]

he was actually a RCNVR not RNVR.

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/citations/gray

I fixed that distinction this weekend. 

 

[goodform]

Thanks for the link Librarian. I think the military section is the largest there. Canada has a lot to be proud of militarily.

As an aside, I just watched all of them. I think I have Canada sensory overload.

 

[Highland Laddie]

Ahhhh, I remembered the "Valour Road" vignettes that used to play on the tele:

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do;jsessionid=D7013FD2814AB55FD034331A446007A0.tomcat1?id=10192

Winnipeg's Pine Street. 3 on one street, wow, amazing. That's quite the cluster.

'Pegger here. The houses in which the 3 VC winners lived are actually about 250' apart. Two are actually across the street from each other. Forget the same street, they are on the same block!