Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger

Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger

forces.

He was 35 years old, and a captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force, attached to 14th Battalion, (Royal Montreal Regiment), C.E.F. during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

During the Second Battle of Ypres on 25 April 1915 at Saint-Julien, Belgium, Captain Scrimger was in charge of an advanced dressing station in a farmhouse near Wiltje on the St. Julien-Ypres Road. The advancing enemy were bombarding the area with an intense shelling. The German infantry were within sight. Scrimger directed the removal of the wounded under the heavy fire. Captain Scrimger and a badly wounded Captain Macdonald were the last men left at the station. Scrimger carried the wounded officer out of the farmhouse to the road. The bombardment of shell forced Scrimger to stop and place Macdonald on the road. Scrimger then protected him with his own body. During a lull in the gunfire Scrimger again carried Macdonald toward help. When he was unable to carry him any further, he remained with the wounded man until help could be obtained.

Location of VC

Canadian War Museum, Ottawa

Notes

References

* — (1916). Captain F.A.C. Scrimger, V.C., M.D. "Can. Med. Assoc. J"., 6:334-336. [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1584589&blobtype=pdf]

* Howell, W.B. (1938). Colonel F.A.C. Scrimger, V.C. "Can. Med. Assoc. J. "38: 279–281. [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=536406&blobtype=pdf]

* Kingsmill, Suzanne. Francis Scrimger: beyond the call of duty / Suzanne Kingsmill. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1991. 112 p. : ill. (Canadian medical lives ; no. 5.) ISBN 1550020811

ee also

*Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
*The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
*VCs of the First World War - The Western Front 1915 (Peter F. Batchelor & Christopher Matson, 1999)
* "On the Battlefields", From the archives of "Maclean's Magazine", Edited by Michael Benedict, Penguin Canada, 2002 ISBN 0-14-301341-6, page 100

External links

* [http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/media/bg_scrimger_e.html Biography at the Canadian War Museum]
* [http://www.waramps.ca/military/bios/caron.html War Amps Canada: Canada's Military Heritage - Biography of Captain Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger]
* [http://www.legionmagazine.com/features/victoriacross/04-07.asp Legion Magazine article on Francis Scrimger]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7034063 Find-A-Grave profile for Francis Scrimger]


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