List of Canadian Victoria Cross winners
- See also: List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients
This is a list of
Canadian winners of the
Victoria Cross, the highest commonwealth war honour. It has been presented to Canadians since its creation soon after the
Crimean War with almost a hundred Canadians being so honoured. Since
1993 Canadians are no longer eligible for the British Victoria Cross it having been replaced with a unique Canadian VC. This award has not yet been awarded, however. In appearance it is identical to the British one except the words are in
Latin rather than
English, as a compromise as both
French and English could not easily fit on the medal.
- Alexander Dunn, not while serving in a Canadian regiment
- William Hall, not while serving in a Canadian regiment
- Herbert Reade, not while serving in a Canadian regiment
- Hampden Cockburn
- Edward Hooland
- William Nickerson, not while serving in a Canadian regiment
- Arthur Richardson
- Richard Ernest Turner
- Wallace Algie
- William Barker
- Collin Barron
- Edward Bellew
- Eric Bent
- Avery Bishop
- Louis Bourke
- Picton Brereton
- Jean Brillant
- Harry Brown
- Hugh Cairns
- Frederick William Campbell
- Lionel Beaumaurice Clarke
- William Clark-Kennedy
- Robert Combe
- Frederick Coppins
- John Croak
- Robert Cruikshank, not while serving in a Canadian regiment
- Edmund DeWind
- Thomas Dinesen, while a Danish citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army he is still considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- Frederick Fisher
- Gordon Flowerdew
- Herman Good
- Milton Gregg
- Frederick William Hall
- Robert Hanna
- Frederick Harvey
- Frederick Hobson
- Thomas Holmes
- Lewis Honey
- Bellenden Hutcheson, while an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army he is still considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- Joseph Kaeble
- George Fraser Kerr
- John Chipman Kerr
- Cecil Kinross
- Arthur Knight
- Filip Konowal, while a Ukrainian citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army he is still considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- Okill Learmonth
- Graham Lyall
- Thain MacDowell
- John MacGregor
- George Burton McKean
- Hugh McKenzie
- Alan Arnett McLeod
- William Merrifield
- William Metcalf, while an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army he is still considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- William Milne
- Harry Miner
- Coulson Mitchell
- Harry Mullin, while an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army he is still considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- Claude Nunney
- Christopher O'Kelly
- O'Leary Michael
- Michael O'Rourke
- John George Pattison
- George Pearkes
- Cyrus Peck
- Walter Rayfield
- James Cleland Richardson
- Thomas Ricketts, serving with the Newfoundland regiment and thus not Canadian at the time of the war.
- James Peter Robertson
- Charles Rutherford
- Francis Scrimger
- Robert Shankland
- Ellis Sifton
- John Sinton, not while serving in a Canadian regiment
- Robert Spall
- Harcus Strachan
- James Tait
- John Francis Young
- Raphael Zengel, while an American citizen who enlisted in the Canadian army he is still considered Canadian at the time he won the medal
- Ian Bazalgette
- Aubrey Cosens
- David Currie
- John Foote
- Robert Gray
- Charles Hoey
- David Hornell
- John Mahony
- Charles Merrit
- Andrew Mynarski
- John Osborn
- Frederick Thorton Peters
- Ernest Smith
- Frederick Tilston
- Frederick Topham
- Paul Triquet
Other
- Timothy O'Hea won the only VC ever awarded for actions on Canadian soil for putting out a fire on a train full of munitions at great personal risk in 1866.
- Campbell Douglas, while serving as a doctor in the British Army in 1867 he won a VC for a daring rescue of stranded British sailors from one of the Andaman Islands.