‘War Hero of the Family’: Canadian War Museum Acquires Three More Victoria Crosses

‘War Hero of the Family’: Canadian War Museum Acquires Three More Victoria Crosses
The Victoria Cross Medal belonging to Pte. James Peter Robertson is seen in an undated handout photo. The Canadian Press/HO-Tilston Memorial Collection of Canadian Military Medals, Canadian War Museum
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The story of Pte. James Peter Robertson was well-known in Peter Harris’s family.

During the First World War, the Canadian soldier singlehandedly took out a German machine-gun nest at Passchendaele. He then led his unit to their objective before a shell killed him while he was trying to save a comrade.