Awards

24th Battalion
Victoria Rifles of Canada

The list of Awards given to members of the 24th Battalion, Victoria Rifles of Canada during the Great War is incomplete in the Regimental Records. If anyone can add to this list, please contact marc

Summary

The following summarizes the known awards given to the 24th Battalion

Award
With
24th Bn

Afrer Transfer

Total
Victoria Cross
1
0
1
Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George
1
2
3
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
1
1
2
Distinguished Service Order
6
4
10
Bar to Distinguished Service Order
1
1
2
Military Cross
33
15
48
Military Cross and Bar
3
1
4
Distinguished Conduct Medal
20
0
20
Military Medal with Bar
8
0
8
Military Medal
126
16
142
Meritorious Service Medal
6
4
10
Mentioned in Dispatches (4 Times)
0
1
1
Mentioned in Dispatches (3 Times)
1
0
1
Mentioned in Dispatches (2 Times)
4
4
8
Mentioned in Dispatches
28
6
34
Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War (twice)
0
1
1
Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War
1
1
2
Croix de Guerre (French)
1
0
1
Croix de Guerre (Belgian)
5
2
7
Cross of St. George - 4th Class (Russian)
1
0
1
Medaille Militaire (French)
1
0
1
Order of St. Stanislas - 3rd Class with Swords and Bar (Russian)
1
0
1
Total
249
58
307

Victoria Cross

Lieutenant-Colonel. W. H. Clark-Kennedy

Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George

Brigadier-General John Alexander Gunn*, D.S.O.
Lieutenant-Colonel. W. H. Clark-Kennedy
Lieutenant-Colonel Stancliffe Wallace Watson*

Bar to Distinguished Service Order

Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Clark-Kennedy

Distinguished Service Order

Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Okeden Alexander
Lieutenant-Colonel. W. H. Clark-Kennedy
Brigadier-General John Alexander Gunn
Major Patterson Lindsay Hall
Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Hardinge Hill*
Lieutenant-Colonel John Stephen Jenkins*
Major Arthur Lennox S. Mills
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Frederic Ritchie
Major John Alexander Ross
Major A. L. S. Mills
Major Arthur Leslie Walker* (Medical Officer)
Lieutenant-Colonel Stancliffe Wallace Watson*

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Lieutenant Donald Chipman Skinner
Hon. Major Allan Pearson Shatf ord (Chaplain)*

Military Cross and Bar

Captain Frederick Henry Morgan
Lieutenant Harry McNeven Alexander
Lieutenant William McMurray
Captain Alfred Crawford Hannaford*

Military Cross

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Frederic Ritchie
Captain Edward Percival Denman
Major Edgar Montague Amphlett
Captain Alexander Montgomery Dewar
Major James Nunn Bales
Captain Herbert D'Olier Kingstone
Major Victor Eugene Duclos
Captain Reginald Heathfield Lamb
Major Patterson Lindsay Hall
Captain Norman Lisle LeSueur
Captain Frank Thompson Bown
Captain George Ross Robertson
Captain Alexander Bruce Campbell
Captain Philip Ilderton Walker
Hon. Captain John A. Donovan (Quartermaster)
Hon. Captain Cecil J. S. Stuart (Chaplain)
Lieutenant John Lighthall Cains
Lieutenant John Cecil Carling
Lieutenant Francis deLancey Clements
Lieutenant George H. P. Coneybeare
Lieutenant Vladimir Curtis
Lieutenant Kevin Stewart Drummond
Lieutenant Arthur Durman
Lieutenant Joseph John Kavanagh
Lieutenant George Herbert Macario
Lieutenant Daniel McIntosh Matheson
Lieutenant John Donald MacIntyre
Lieutenant Norris Williams Robins
Lieutenant Vernon Robert Spearing
Lieutenant Francis Wilfred Stenson
Lieutenant H. R. Tanner
Lieutenant Percival George Tucker
Lieutenant Robert Benjamin E. Wilson
Major Ronald Douglas Sutherland*
Captain G. L. Jepson, C.A.M.C.*
Major Arthur Leslie Walker*
Captain Arthur Hawley A. Morphy*
Captain Andrew Stuart Boa*
Captain A. H. Taylor, C.A.M.C.*
Captain Bernard Dysart Coombes*
Lieutenant A. C. Bowles*
Captain H. E. Cummins, C.A.M.C.*
Lieutenant Harry Alexander Dawson*
Captain George Hagar Gilchrist*
Lieutenant Mitchell Hartt Doig*
Captain George Hobson*
Lieutenant Warren Davidson Nelson*
Captain R. B. Jenkins, C.A.M.C.*

The Distinguished Conduct Medal

Hon. Captain John A. Donovan (Quartermaster)
Lieutenant Alexander Findlay
Private Arthur Edward Abbey
C.S.M. Hector Adam
Sergeant Frederick James Baillie,
Sergeant George Loraine Bradley
Sergeant Sydney Harold Carpenter
Sergeant Arthur William Cooke
C.S.M. George Wood Croll
C.Q.M.S. John Donohoe
A/C.Q.M.S. William Gauld
Private Charles Henry Grogg
Sergeant Ralph Waldo Handren
Private Leo B. LeBoutillier
Sergeant George Henry McNeill
Corporal James Christopher O'Toole
Lance-Corporal George Douglas Scott
Sergeant Fred Howard Sweeney
Private James Wilson
Private Albert N. Withey

Meritorious Service Medal

Lieutenant William Harold Crotty
Lance-Corporal Alexander Wales Hutcheon
Sergeant George Ricardo Kemp
Corporal John Carter
Sergeant J. T. Lawrence
Sergeant John Herbert Drew
Sergeant Richard Stanley Pattison
Sergeant L. M. Edwards
Sergeant Victor Burke*
Corporal John Joseph Elton*
Sergeant Bernard Blyth Wones*
Private Edward John Harned*

Military Medal and Bar

Lieutenant Alfred Gunnell
Corporal Hubert Cairns
Lance-Sergeant Gerald Diomede Coughlan
Sergeant Arthur Francis Draycott
Sergeant John William Gillard
Corporal Edward Keating
Sergeant James Wesley Kennedy
Lance-Sergeant Arthur Philip Long
Sergeant George Quirk

Military Medal

Lieutenant Arthur Beck
Lieutenant Alexander Findlay
Lieutenant Nathan Thomas Hammett
Lieutenant Kenneth Cameron McIntyre
Captain Arthur Frederick Mott
Lieutenant Norris William Robins
Lieutenant Howard Edwin Rose
Private Henry Jasper Adelson
Private Charles Baldwin
Corporal Joseph Berkin
Private Samuel John Bethune
Sergeant Laurie L. Bishop
A/Sergeant Frederick W. G. Botsford
Private David Brown
Private Frederick Young Brown
Lance-Corporal Barrett Buck
Private Frank Burden
C.Q.M.S. Leonard Cade
Lance-Sergeant Lachlin Collin Campbell
Lance-Corporal Alexander J. Cassidy
Corporal William H. Chase
Private Edgar Guy Collins
Sergeant Arthur William Cooke
Private Claude Cooper
Sergeant Abraham John Crabb
Sergeant Samuel Cree
Sergeant Gordon Cross
Corporal W. Crowell
Private Charles Smith Davidson
Private Harry Davidson
Private H. Dawson
Sergeant Jack (True name Depledge
 Horace Firth)
Sergeant John Francis Devan
Corporal William Divorty
Lance-Corporal George Edgar Dodsworth
Private Michael Doyle
Lance-Corporal Edgerton Edmund Duley
Private John James Edgar
Private George Vincent England
Sergeant Frederick James Evernden
Sergeant Alpine (True name Ferguson
 Albert Halliwell)
Private James Ferguson
Lance-Sergeant Edmund Ralph Feilde
Lance-Sergeant Alexander Finlayson
C.S.M. Philippe J. Fournier
Corporal Frederick Albert Francis
Sergeant Charles Frederick Franklin
Private John Henry Gardner
A/C.Q.M.S. William Gauld
Corporal Thomas Lopton Gaunt
Private Leonard Gautby
Private Balthazar Giguere
Corporal Andrew Gillespie
Private Henry John Godsell
Private John Gow
Corporal Harry Grey
Sergeant Ray G. Hagen
Corporal Alfred Emil Hansen
C.Q.M.S. William Henderson
R.S.M. James Hennessy
Private James Hillerby
Private William James Hogan
Sergeant George Hurst
Lance-Corporal Thomas Hutchinson
Private Carl Daniel Ingalls
Corporal John Jones
Lance-Corporal Frank John Kelly
Lance-Sergeant James Patrick Kelly
Sergeant William Henry Kennaugh
Lance-Corporal George Wilfred Kennedy
Lance-Corporal Albert Harold W. Ketch
Private Henri Lamarre
Private Medard Lanctot
Private Leopold Lareau
C.S.M. James C. Mackie
Private Laurent Marcel
Private George Stanley Marsh
Sergeant Hugh Marshall
Sergeant James Danford Matatall
Corporal Frank May
Lance-Corporal Kerr H. Merrian
Lance-Sergeant Albert Metzger
R.Q.M.S. Robert Mitchell
Lance-Corporal Harry Murphy
Private Percy McCormick
Sergeant Samuel McDonald
Private Sidney James McLachlan
Private Charles McPherson
Private Donald Benjamin Naylor
Sergeant Harry Starbuck Naylor
Corporal Joseph Walter G. Noakes
Corporal Arthur James O'Brien
Lance-Sergeant John Oliver
Corporal Bert Owens
Private Francois Pelletier
Private William Henry Pellow
Private John Wesley Prince
Corporal Victor Proctor
Sergeant William Ferguson Rae
Corporal John H. Robertson
C.S.M. Arthur Leslie Samson
Private Jack Sandford
Corporal George E. Spinney
Private James Henry Stobie
Private William Strachan
Sergeant Edward Charles Styles
Private Lawrence Ernest Tarrant
Sergeant Robert Telfer
Corporal James Thompson
Sergeant Arnold Samuel Tracey
Private George Tyo
Private Wilfred Hugh Vickers
Corporal James Perry Walden
Corporal Frederick Lewis Walker
Lance-Corporal Seth Wass
Corporal Ernest George Watkins
Private Oscar Everett Watson
Lance-Corporal Ernest Arthur Webb
Sergeant W. Westwater
Lance-Corporal Jasper Ray White
Sergeant Thomas Herbert Wilde
Private Benjamin Woodley
Corporal Gerald Frederick Williams
Sergeant Walter Wooffinden
Lance-Corporal Ellison Willis
Lance-Corporal Mark Young
Captain George Hobson*
Private John Frederick Gardner*
C.S.M. William Nicholson*
Gunner Edgar A Leach*
Corporal Edward Flynn*
Sapper Thomas McDonald*
Corporal Robert McAskill*
Private Harold George Stapley*
Corporal Calvin E. Withrow*
Private John Gordon Wallace*
Private William Godwin Brown*
Private John Henderson Weiss*
Private Ralph Griffin*
Private William Wells*
Private Lawrence Fearus Donnelly*
Private Edmund Marshall Zeller*

Mentioned in Dispatches - Four Times

Lieutenant-Colonel Stancliffe Wallace Watson*

Mentioned in Dispatches - Three Times

Hon. Captain Cecil J. S. Stuart (Chaplain)

Mentioned in Dispatches - Twice

Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Clark-Kennedy
Captain Herbert Smith McGreevy
Major John Alexander Ross
Lieutenant Donald Chipman Skinner
Hon. Captain Cecil J. S. Stuart (Chaplain)
Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Okeden Alexander*
Lieutenant-Colonel John Stephen Jenkins* D.S.O. C.A.M.C.
Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Hardinge Hill*
Major Arthur Leslie Walker*

Mentioned in Dispatches

Gunn, Brig.-General John Alexander
Macario, Lieutenant George Herbert
Alexander, Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Okeden
Morgan, Lieutenant Frederick Henry
Ritchie, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Frederic
McBean, Lieutenant Arthur
Bales, Major James Nunn
MacIntyre, Lieutenant John Donald
Hall, Major Patterson Lindsay
Rigg, Lieutenant Harold Thornley
Mills, Major Arthur Lennox S.
Tanner, Lieutenant Harold Richard
Dewar, Captain Alexander Montgomery
Campbell, Sergeant H.
Lamb, Captain Reginald Heathfield
Connelly, Sergeant J.
LeSueur, Captain Norman Lisle
Gauld, A/C.Q.M.S. William
Robertson, Captain George Ross
Innes, Sergeant Walter
Campbell, Hon. Captain Harry Davies
Lougheed, Private Harold John (Quartermaster)
Mackie, Sergeant J. C.
Briggs, Lieutenant Alfred
Meredith, Sergeant J. E.
Jones, Lieutenant George William
Stewart, Sergeant James
Leach, Lieutenant Frederick Sydney
Yuill, Lance-Corporal Don
Hon. Major Allan Pearson Shatford* (Chaplain)
Sergeant A. L. Garvin*
Private Isidore Ouellett*
Captain Bernard Dysart Coombes*
Private Frederick Arthur Taylor*
Captain Arthur Frederick Mott*

Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War (Twice)

Brigadier-General John Alexander Gunn*, D.S.O.

Brought to the Notice of the Secretary of State for War

Private Frederick Godfrey Moore
Major Ronald Douglas Sutherland*

Foreign Decorations


Medaille Militaire (French)

Sergeant George Quirk

Croix de Guerre (French)

Corporal John H. Robertson

Cross of St. George - 4th Class (Russian)

Private Edwin Williard Steele

Order of St. Stanislas - 3rd Class with Swords and Bar (Russian)

Captain Herbert D'Olier Kingstone

Croix de Guerre (Belgian)

Major Patterson Lindsay Hall
Lieutenant George H. P. Coneybeare
Lance-Corporal James Day
Private Daniel Murdo Morrison
Private John McDowell
Lieutenant Hugh Mackay Patterson*
Lance-Corporal Walter Bate*

 

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