Lieutenant-Colonel Milton Gregg
West Nova Scotia Regiment

He personally killed or wounded 11 of the enemy and took 25 prisoners, in addition to 12 machine guns captured in this trench. Remaining with his company in spite of wounds, he again on the 30th September led his men in attack until severely wounded. The outstanding valour of this officer saved many casualties and enabled the advance to continue.

(V.C. citation, 6 Jan 1919)

With a Victoria Cross and two Military Crosses for heroism in the First World War, Milton Fowler Gregg was one of Canada’s most decorated officers. Born in Kings County, New Brunswick on 10 April 1892, he had enlisted as a sergeant in November 1914 and rose to a lieutenant with the Royal Canadian Regiment. Three-times wounded, three-times decorated for gallantry, Gregg “annihilated” a German machine gun crew at Lens in summer 1917 and repulsed an enemy counter-attack at Arras in summer 1918, before his actions at Cambrai in late September 1918, which earned the VC, the highest award for bravery in the British Empire.

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