Awards & Winners

Bellenden Hutcheson

Date of Birth 16-December-1883
Place of Birth Mount Carmel
(Wabash County, Illinois, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Soldier
Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson VC MC, was an American recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War. The VC is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Hutcheson was one of seven Canadians to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 2 September 1918. The other six Victoria Cross recipients were Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, William Metcalf, John Francis Young, Walter Leigh Rayfield, Cyrus Wesley Peck and Arthur George Knight.

Awards by Bellenden Hutcheson

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1918


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2 September 1918 as Captain of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War.)