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• The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 45, October 23, 2005, Article 10
  

  CANADIAN VICTORIA CROSS FINDS A HOME
  

  Another Victoria Cross has found a home in a museum,
  this time in Canada:
  

  "The Canadian War Museum has unveiled a new attraction --
  the First World War Victoria Cross of Captain Francis
  Scrimger.
  

  A Montreal native who studied medicine at McGill University
  before the war, Scrimger served with the Royal Montreal
  Regiment (14th Battalion) during the Second Battle of Ypres.
  

  Scrimger was the first medical officer to receive the British
  Commonwealth's highest military decoration for bravery and
  gallantry, after he conducted the evacuation of a medical station
  in what is believed to have been the first use of poisonous
  gas in battle.
  

  In April 1915, When German forces unleashed the deadly
  chlorine gas on Allied forces in Belgium, Scrimger instructed
  the men in his battalion to breathe through moistened
  handkerchiefs.
  

  Because the gas was water-soluble, his advice was credited
  with saving many lives."
  

  On Monday, Scrimger's descendants donated his rare medal
  -- alongside two other medals he received -- to the War
  Museum in Ottawa."
  

  "Only 94 Canadians have ever been honoured with the
  Victoria Cross."
  

  To read the full article, see: Full Story
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n45a10.html

Date publiée

• 2005-10-23

Volume

• 8

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