Personnel of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) drilling on the parade square during initial training at H.M.C.S. CONESTOGA, Galt, Ontario, Canada, December 1943.
1918 Private John Croak of the 13th Battalion, C.E.F. attacked a German machine gun position and captured both the machine gun and its crew. Croak led his platoon in a charge that resulted in the capture of three machine guns and the survivors of the strong point's garrison near Amiens, France. For his actions, Private Croak earned the Victoria Cross. (Posthumous).
