Awards & Winners

Walter Leigh Rayfield

Date of Birth 07-October-1881
Place of Birth Richmond, London
(London, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
Nationality Canada, United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
Walter Leigh Rayfield VC was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Rayfield was one of seven Canadian to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on September 2, 1918. The other six Victoria Cross recipients were Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, William Metcalf, Cyrus Wesley Peck, John Francis Young, Bellenden Hutcheson and Arthur George Knight.

Awards by Walter Leigh Rayfield

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1918


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2nd September 1918 as Private of the 7th Battalion, CEF during the First World War.)