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Victoria Cross Awarded For Heroic Sacrifice
The King approved the Victoria Cross posthumously for Company Sergeant Major John Robert Osborn of the Winnipeg Grenadiers for selfless action at Hong Kong on December 19 1941. He saved comrades by throwing himself on a grenade, enabling others to survive and later return to Canada after Japanese captivity. Osborn, born in Norfolk England January 2 1899, served in the Royal Navy in WWI and settled in Winnipeg with his wife Margaret Nelson.
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National Defence
Ottawa
CSM
Osborn
Guay Avenue
St. Vitay
Winnipeg
Hong Kong
Dieppe
C. C. Merritt
J. W. Foote
Major Osborn
Norfolk
England
Royal Navy
Canada
Canadian National Railways
Toronto
Carberry
Man
Margaret Elizabeth Nelson
Gregg
St. Vital
Imperial Forces
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Grenadiers
Jamaica
John Robert Osborn
Bat
CSM Osborn
Mount Butler