Awards & Winners

George Pearkes

Date of Birth 28-February-1888
Place of Birth Watford
(Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, England)
Nationality Canada
Profession Soldier
Major General George Randolph Pearkes, VC, PC, CC, CB, DSO, MC, CD was a Canadian politician; soldier; recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy awarded to British and Imperial forces; and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

Awards by George Pearkes

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1917


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on the 30th October 1917, as Acting Major in the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War.)