Gordon muriel flowerdew bio

          Gordon Muriel Flowerdew VC (2 January – 31 March ) was an English-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious....

          Gordon Muriel, militiaman and army officer; b.

        1. Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, VC, farmer, rancher, soldier, (born 2 January in Billingford, Norfolk, England; died 31 March near Moreuil, France).
        2. Gordon Muriel Flowerdew VC (2 January – 31 March ) was an English-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious.
        3. Gordon Muriel Flowerdew VC (2 January – 31 March ) was an English-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and.
        4. Gordon Muriel Flowerdew VC was an English-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, received for his actions.

          5. FLOWERDEW,GORDON MURIEL, militiaman and army officer; b. 2 Jan. 1885 in Billingford, near Diss, England, eighth son of Arthur John Blomfield Flowerdew, a farmer, and Hannah Symonds; d. 31 March 1918 near Moreuil, France.

          One of 14 children, Gordon Flowerdew was educated from 1894 to 1899 at Framlingham College in Suffolk, where he shone more on the playing-fields than in the classroom.

          After coming to Canada in 1903, he followed opportunity to Duck Lake, Sask., and then to British Columbia, at Queens Bay on Kootenay Lake and finally at Walhachin, where he found work in a general store and post office. He apparently turned his hand to many things, managing a butcher shop and working as an orchardist and rancher.

          In summer 1911 he joined the Regiment of Cavalry (31st Regiment, British Columbia Horse), and at the annual militia camp the following year he distinguished himself by setting records in shooting competitions and steeplechasing.

          In Walhachin he had be