Stamp honours Valour Road war heroes
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Three decorated First World War soldiers from Winnipeg are being honoured in a stamp issued by Canada Post.
Lionel (Leo) Clarke, Frederick William Hall and Robert Shankland received the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest military decoration for bravery in combat.
All three lived on Pine Street in the West End. It was renamed to Valour Road in honour of the three heroes in 1925.
Clarke held off a German counterattack after every other soldier was severely wounded or killed and despite a bayonet wound to his leg during the Battle of the Somme near Pozières, France, in 1916.
Hall was killed after his second attempt to save a wounded soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.
Shankland led a counterattack during the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele after gaining a strategic foothold on a ridge following the deaths of much of his platoon. He managed to make it back to battalion headquarters to report on the enemy’s position.
Shankland was the only one of the three who was alive to accept the medal; the parents of Clarke and Hall accepted the award on their behalf.
Valour Road features a commemorative plaza, erected in 2005, with a stone monument in the shape of the Victoria Cross and steel silhouettes honouring the three soldiers.
The stamp is available at postal outlets and canadapost.ca. Canada Post is also selling a collectible version of the stamps and a framed version.
The First World War claimed the lives of 61,000 Canadians.