Ordinary Seamen R.C. Reeves (left) and R.D. Nelson, both Anti-Aircraft Ratings Third Class, Royal Canadian Navy Gunnery School, H.M.C.S. CORNWALLIS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 15 January 1943.
1915 Captain Francis Scrimger of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, earned the Victoria Cross in Ypres, Belgium, 25 April 1915, for bravery in directing the evacuation of the wounded from his advanced dressing station under heavy enemy shelling.