Filip Konowal
Ukrainian-Canadian soldier
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Filip Konowal VC was a highly decorated Ukrainian Canadian soldier. He is the first Canadian Corps member not born in the British Empire to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British... Wikipedia
Born: March 25, 1887, Kutkivtsi, Ukraine
Died: June 3, 1959 (age 72 years), Hull, Gatineau, Canada
Place of burial: Notre-Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Canada
Awards: Victoria Cross
Battles/wars: World War I; *Battle of Hill 70; Russian Civil War; *Siberian Intervention
Rank: Sergeant