ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients Claude Nunney, William Metcalf, Arthur Knight, John Young, Walter Rayfield, Bellenden Hutcheson and Cyrus Wesley

The only award of the Victoria Cross to a Canadian in World War I outside the European theatre stems from heroic action in the Middle

ILLUSTRATIONS: Sharif Tarabay Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients Harcus Strachan, Edmund De Wind, George McKean, Joseph Kaeble and Gordon Flowerdew. November 1917 saw

ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients Philip Eric Bent, Tommy Holmes, Christopher O’Kelly, George Mullin, George Pearkes, James Peter Robertson, Collin

ILLUSTRATIONS: SHARIF TARABAY Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients Michael James O’Rourke, Harry Brown, Frederick Hobson, Filip Konowal, Robert Hanna and Okill Massey Learmonth.

ILLUSTRATIONS: Sharif Tarabay From top: Victoria Cross recipients Billy Bishop, Alan McLeod and William Barker. This was appropriately fitting for the deeds of these men