Source: Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press, November 5, 2017
OTTAWA — Passchendaele. More than 500,000 people, including 15,000 Canadians, were killed or wounded during the prolonged fight, as weeks of rain and shell fire churned the battlefield into a sea of mud.
Yet amid the horror that enveloped a small part of Belgium in the summer and fall of 1917, were nine Canadians who would be awarded the Victoria Cross, the British Empire’s highest medal for bravery.
Image Source: The Victoria Cross and other medals awarded to Cpl. Colin Fraser Barron are shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO – Spink & Son
