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English: Sault Ste. Marie Cenotaph in front of the Sault Ste. Marie District Courthouse, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

NO. 8000 SGT. WM. MERRIFIELD, V.C., M.M.

4TH CANADIAN INFANTRY BATTALION DATE OF AWARD OCT. 1, 1918 PASSED TO HIS REWARD AUG. 8, 1943

FOR MOST CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY AND DEVOTION TO DUTY DURING THE ATTACK NEAR ABANCOURT ON THE 1ST. OCTOBER, 1918. WHEN HIS MEN WERE HELD UP BY AN INTENSE FIRE FROM TWO MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENTS HE ATTACKED THEM BOTH SINGLE-HANDED. DASHING FROM SHELL-HOLE TO SHELL-HOLE HE KILLED THE OCCUPANTS OF THE FIRST POST, AND ALTHOUGH WOUNDED, CONTINUED TO ATTACK THE SECOND POST AND WITH A BOMB KILLED THE OCCUPANTS. HE REFUSED TO BE EVACUATED AND LED HIS PLATOON AGAIN UNTIL SEVERELY WOUNDED. SGT. MERRIFIELD HAS SERVED WITH EXCEPTIONAL DISTINCTION ON MANY FORMER OCCASIONS AND THROUGHOUT THE ACTION OF THE 1ST. OCTOBER SHOWED THE HIGHEST QUALITIES OF VALOUR AND LEADERSHIP.
This photo is of a cultural heritage site in Canada, number
8437
in the Canadian Register of Historic Places.
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