Awards & Winners

Cyrus Wesley Peck

Date of Birth 26-April-1871
Place of Birth Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick
(New Brunswick)
Nationality Canada
Profession Soldier
Cyrus Wesley Peck VC DSO and Bar 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. Peck was one of seven Canadian 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, Bellenden Hutcheson and Arthur George Knight.

Awards by Cyrus Wesley Peck

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1918


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2nd September, 1918 as Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Battalion, CEF during the First World War.)