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1918:

VC won by A/Cpl Alexander Picton Brereton, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France


1918:

VC won by Cpl Frederick George Coppins, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens (Hackey Wood), France


1918:

VC won by Lt Jean Brillant, 22nd Battalion, CEF, Meharicourt, France (near Amiens) (posthumous)


1918:

VC won by Sgt Raphael Louis Zengel, MM, 5th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France


1945:

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki


1945:

VC won by Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (attached to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy), Onagawa Wan, Japan (posthumous)




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August 8



1918:

AMIENS, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 11 Aug 18)


1918:

VC won by Cpl Harry Garnet Bedford Miner, 58th Batalion, CEF, Dermuin, France (posthumous)


1918:

VC won by Cpl Herman James Good, 13th Battalion, CEF, near Amiens, France


1918:

VC won by Lt James Edward Tait, 78th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France (posthumous)


1918:

VC won by Pte John Bernard Croake, 13 Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France




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