Canadian Victoria Cross Recipients [Pre-1920] by AUTOGRAPHS, VICTORIA CROSS RECIPIENTS] - - 1920

8 August, 1920, 1920. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Autographs. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Blank-page autograph book. 11.5 cm x 9 cm, black fabricoid binding with the word "Autographs" gilt-stamped to cover, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Written on front free endpaper: "Canadian Victoria Cross [Winners?]. Canadian National Exhibition. Toronto. 28/8/1920." The Victoria Cross is the highest honour in the Canadian honour system, for gallantry in the face of the enemy, that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. It even takes precedence over the Order of Canada. The Canadian National Exhibition celebrated Canada's wartime achievement bringing together 26 winners of the Victoria Cross and their families. Organized in cooperation with the Veterans Re-Union Council, large numbers of veterans attended the gathering of VC winners. In his opening day address, Sir Auckland Geddes noted the "imperishable glory of the Canadian Corps." There are 17 recipient autographs and 11 signatures of "next of kin" recipients. Some name their regiment, home town, and rank. Autographs include: George Harry Mullin, 1892-1963, VC, MM, 1917, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Passchendaele, Belgium (signed on separate page by his wife); Walter Leigh Rayfield, 1881-1949, VC, 1918, 7th Battalion CEF, Arras, France; Edward Donald Bellew, 1882-1961, VC, 1918, 7th Battalion, CEF, Kerselaere, Belgium (signed twice); Alexander Bereton, 1892-1976, VC, 1918, 8th Battalion, Amiens, France; Christopher Patrick John O'Kelly, 1895-1922, VC, MC, 1917, 52nd Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium; Robert Shankland, 1887-1968, VC, DCM, 1917, 43rd Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium; John Francis Young, 1893-1929, VC, 1918, 87th Battalion, CEF, Dury-Arras Sector, France; Thomas W. Holmes, 1898-1950, VC, 2nd Battalion, Passchendaele, Belgium; Raphael Zengel, 1894-1977, VC, MM, 1918, 5th Battalion, CEF, Warvillers, France; Frederick Coppins, 1889-1963, VC, 1918, 8th Battalion, CEF, Hackett Woods, France; William Merrifield, 1890-1943, VC, MM, 1918, 4th Battalion, CEF, Abancourt, France; Cecil John Kinross, 1896-1957, VC, 1917, 49th Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium; Herman James Good, 1887-1969, VC, 1918, 13th Battalion, CEF, Hangard Wood, France; Filip Konowal, 1888-1959, VC, 1917, 47th Battalion, CEF, Lens, France (a Ukrainian born Canadian was the only Ukrainian to receive the Victoria Cross); Charles Smith Rutherford, 1892-1989, VC, MC, MM, 1918, 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles, Monchy, France; Coulson Mitchell, 1889-1978, VC, MC, 1918, 4th Canadian Engineers, Canal de l'Escaut, France; George Richardson, 1831-1923, VC, 1859, 34th Regiment of Foot, British Army, Indian Mutiny; James Richardson, 1895-1916, VC, 1916, 16th Battalion, CEF, Somme, France (signed on 2-pages by next of kin, David Richardson); James Robertson, 1883-1917, VC, 1917, 27th Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium; James Edward Tait, 1886-1918, VC, 1918, 78th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France (signed on 2-pages by next of kin, Jessie Tait); Hugh Cairns, 1896-1918, VC, DCM, 1918, 46th Battalion, CEF, Valenciennes, France (signed on 2-pages by next of kin); Jean Brilland, 1890-1918, VC, MC, 1918, 22nd Battalion, CEF, Meharicourt, France; John George Pattison, 1875-1917, VC, 1917, 50th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (signed twice by next of kin); Harry Garnet Bedford Miner, 1891-1918, VC, 1918, 58th Battalion, CEF, Demuin, France; Frederick Hobson, 1873-1917, VC, 1917, 1st Battalion, CEF, Lens, France; John Bernard Croak, 1892-1918, VC, 13th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France; Joseph Thomas Kaeble, 1892-1918, VC, MM, 22nd Battalion, CEF, Neuville-Vitasse, France; Frederick William Campbell, 1867-1915, VC, 1915, 1st Battalion, CEF, Givenchy, France. A very rare, very important and unique document..