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Walter L Rayfield VC collection [graphic material]

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Date:

ca. 1935-1945.

Reference:

R10968-0-0-E

Type of material:

Photographs

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Item ID number:

208220

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Walter L Rayfield VC collection
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Collection includes:

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Date(s):

ca. 1935-1945.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3 photographs : 2 b&w prints and 1 b&w copy negative.

Language of material:

English

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Walter L Rayfield VC collection [graphic material]

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The collection consists of portraits of Captain W.L. Rayfield, V.C.

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Rayfield, Walter L

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Rayfield, Walter L : Walter Leigh Rayfield was the recipient of the Victoria Cross for deeds carried out in September, 1918. The official description of Deed reads as follows:

From 2/4 September 1918 during the operations east of Arras, France, Private Rayfield, ahead of his company, rushed a trench occupied by a large party of the enemy, bayoneting two and taking 10 prisoners. Later, after engaging with great skill an enemy sniper, he rushed the section of the trench from which the sniper had been operating and so demoralised the enemy that 30 others surrendered to him. Subsequently, regardless of personal safety, he left cover under heavy machine-gun fire and carried in a badly wounded comrade.

Captain Rayfield was buried at Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario in February 1949. His Victoria Cross medal now resides at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

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Custodial history:

The original portrait of W.L. Rayfield was loaned to the National Archives of Canada in 1970, which made a copy and returned the original to the family. In 1999, the family donated two other photographs of W.L. Rayfield, but could not locate the original one copied in 1970. The National Archives has retained the copy negative of this original photograph as the only known existing copy.

Source:

Private

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1970-044 NPC
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