Stolen Victoria Cross recovered.The Victoria Cross awarded to Ukrainian born Canadian soldier Corporal Filip Konowal Filip Konowal VC (September 15, 1888 – June 3, 1959) was a Ukrainian 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. that disappeared from the Canadian War Museum The Canadian War Museum (CWM) is Canada’s national museum of military history. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the museum focuses on military conflicts that occurred on Canadian soil, involved Canadian forces, or had a significant effect on the country and its people. about 30 years ago was back on public display in Ottawa on Monday, 23 August 2004. Its whereabouts in those 30 years is unknown except that Canadian Broadcasting Commission Geoff Ellwand has revealed that in the early 1990s a well-dressed woman in her thirties brought it and a Hawaiian silver dollar into a local coin dealer's shop. Told, wrongly, that both were fakes, she sold them, got $20 and went away content. Ukrainian-Canadian historian Lubomyr Luciuk had been searching for the Konowal medal since the 1980's and was told by the Canadian War Museum that the VC was misplaced mis·place tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es 1. a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence. b. not stolen!. On Friday, 2 April 2004, Iain Stewart who runs the premier Victoria Cross website http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/vcross.htm heard reports that Konowal's VC was for sale by Jeffrey Hoare Auctions of London, Ontario and e-mailed this information to Lubomyr Luciuk. He contacted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Royal Canadian Mounted Police, constabulary organized (1873) as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian west. In 1920 the name was changed to the present title. who secured the VC and authenticated au·then·ti·cate tr.v. au·then·ti·cat·ed, au·then·ti·cat·ing, au·then·ti·cates To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine: a specialist who authenticated the antique samovar. it as Konowal's VC. Anthony.Staunton@pcug.org.au |
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