oct 26, 1917 - Private Tommy Holmes
He served with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
which fought, on the right flank, the flank was
stopped by heavy machine gunfire from
German concrete forts called pillboxes. Alone,
Holmes took out two enemy machine gun crews
with grenades, under heavy fire. He returned
and hurled another grenade at the entrance of a
third pillbox, prompting its nineteen occupants to surrender. Then he won a Victoria Cross for
his achievement.
