Daily British Whig (1850), 8 Mar 1919, p. 14

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ILY BRITISH Pte. Cecil John Kinross, The Canadian 51st Battalion, V.C.'s How Men From Canada Earned the Empire's Highest Tribute for Bravery in the Field of Battle. ote : For most conspicuous brav- ery in action during prolonged and severe operations, Shortly after the attack was launched, the company to which he be- He TEE not at- A long. When moved north Cee¢il John Marston public school, er to Coleshill Grammar spring, obtaining leave from fter his wounds were begin- 18 end, Pte. Kinross, V.C., vis- ited Iris old home. Hearing of his mihg, the town arranged a publie reception for him He was met at railway station by prominent carried shoulder high to a waiting motor and driven around the irrounding parishes. The proces- was headed by a band and a r of the boys from Lea The the tizens 1: iTge num Marston 'and Coleshill schools. longed came under intense artillery fire, and further advance was held up parade ended by at the school, where by a very severe fire from an enemy mac hine-gun, Pte. Kinross, making | # general survey, advanced alone over the open ground im broad daylight, charged the enemy machine-gun, killing the crew of six, and seized and de- | " stroyed the gun. confidence in his company be made and a highly important position to be established. His superb example and enabled a further advance of 300 yards to gt {always with that tincture of danger and courage instilled the greatest | Throughoytithe day he showed marvellous coolness and courage, fight- | ing 'with the utmost aggressiveness against heavy odds until seriously ne ar, wounded.~+From Official Gazette, speeches were made and a presenta- tion made to the boy who had brought distinction to the sehool. In the three years that Pte. Kin- ross was in the army he was engaged various forms of military duty, that made the life attractive to him. {He at one time was company "run- * one of the most dangerous oc- {cupations at the front, his duty being to carry messages from the front line {to battalion headquarters under di- | rect fire most of the time. At an- other time he was attached to a | trench mortar battery. | Again he was found out in No Man's Land, fixing the barbed wire entanglements. But of all the | phases of work he was happiest when {he was just an. ordinary "Tommy," {and with that curious mixture of re- | i | | | PTE. CECIL JOHN KINTROSS. BY CAROLYN CORNELL. German machine-guns have given Canada a large number of V.C.'s One of these was Pte. Cecil John Kin ross, who returned to his home in Lougheed, Alta. the first week of January, after three years in the army. His memorable raid on a troublesome machine-gun in the en- emy trenches was made at the battle of Passchendaele, Oct, 30, 1917. The attack on Pasdschendaele the Canadians, in which Pte. Kin- ross displayed the fearlessness and skill whieh won him the highest honor in the gift of Great Britain to her soldiers, lasted from the night of Oct. 28-29 until the night of Nov. 1, 1917. The attack was successful, as history knows, as Passchendaele Ridge was occupied by the British at the end of the engagement, but his tory cannot estimate how much of that victory was due to such acts of individaal courage as won Cecil Kin- ross the V.C. The struggle was sevage. The Canadian line was withering under terrific fire. © One of the sources of this punishment of the line was a machine-gun which was pouring its deadly hail into the trenches of the Canadians . Pte. Kinross was seen to make a careful survey of the ground intervening between the Ca- nadian line and the German line. Tt was broad daylight. Deliberately di- vesting himself of all his equipment, except his bandoliere, the belt that carried his ammunition, and his rifle, he went over the top alone. He advanced steadily, under direct fire, towards the enemy line, and sin- gle-handed c%arged the machine- Bun. He killed the crew of six and put the gun out of coinmission. Fired by the example of their ecom- rade the other men of his company made a rsh and advanced 300 yards and established a highly important position. He was seriously wound- ed in the head and arm later the same day. = It was not until two months later, while convalescing in Orpington hospital. England, that he heard that he had been given the Vie- toria Cross for his work that day in by October. ' He w ed man in his company. | Pte. Kinross is the only son of James Sterling Kinross, J.P., Lough-| eed, Alta. Before enlisting he work- ed on his father's farm. He joined the 61st Battalion'in October, 1915, at Edmonton. By volunteering to g0 over with a special draft he got | to England the following December, | spending Christmas day at sea. In England he was sent to Shorncliffe, where he was in training until March. He was soon in action in the third battle of Ypres. In June he moved © the Somme, where he was wounded- | ed, but was back in the trenches in| about a month. From that until Passchendaele he was in the battle line continuously, with the exception of tem days' leave in. England, just] before the big engagement in which he won the V.C. The Kinross family came from England to live in Canada in 1911 They settled on a farm near Lough-| eed. Cecil Kinross was born in Ux-} bridge, Middlesex, Eng., about ten miles from London. When he was nine years old his parents moved to Hollies Farm, Lea Marston, near Bir- mingham. ' Six years later they came to Canada. One sister is now a narsé in Edmonton. The younger sister took her brother's place on the farm during his absence overseas, as | so many girls have done in England. Two cousins Who had come to Can-| ada the same time as the Kinross family joined the army early in the] war. One of them, D. A. Kyle, was' a trapper in the Peace River district when war was declared, and walked | 200 miles to enlist. The other was | James Miller. Both have won the Military Medal. Every relative of the V.C. of military age was in the army. Cecil John Kinross started school when he was about six years old. Hé went to a boarding school near his home, Dewes Farm, Uxbridge. A] cheering bit of information for boys of that age now will be the fact that the future V.C. was frequently mi- nus dessert on Sundays for wriggling in church, while he was in attend- i 4 arf on was the most surpris-| jwas 'sister, {when Peri |finement and keen and fearless daring which is" found so often In the Eng- lish make-up, he could say, "This is the life for me." 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