Item of interest
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- From: "everittdeb" <_uid315@yahoogroups.invalid>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:04:15 -0000
FIRST VICTORIA CROSS FOR NOVA SCOTIA
It is now officially announced from Ottawa that King George has conford the Victoria Cross on
Pte. John Chipman Kerr
of Fox River, Cumb. Co., N. S.
This, as we have mentiond before, is the first Victoria Cross to be won by a soldier lad from Nova Scotia.
Pte. Kerr was in a hot place in the trenches. He was as brave, as men are made: and in an emergency he used his quick Bluenose brains and wit and virtually single-handed bagged three score and two Huns.
In recounting this incident some Yankee papers have doubted the circumstances and assert that it never occurd. But facts are all against these "doubting Thomas's." and there is positive proof of 62 Huns walking to the rear, thru the bold bravery and wonderfully intelligent and quick action of this Nova Scotia hero - Pte. J. C. Kerr of Fox River.
(Truro Daily News February 8, 1917, page 3)