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‘Capt. Francis A.C. Scrimger, V.C.’, 1915. Cigarette card, No 64 from the 3rd series of ‘The Great War Victoria Cross Heroes’, a set of 25 cigarette cards, issued by Gallaher Limited, Belfast and London, 1915. Portrait of Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger (11880-1937), Canadian Army Medical Service, wearing his Victoria Cross, after a photograph by Swaine. The reverse of the card summarises Scrimger’s act of gallantry. It records that, ‘Capt. Francis Alex C. Scrimger, V.C. (Canadian A.M.S.) won this honour for great devo-tion to duty on April 25th, 1915, near Ypres. He coolly directed the activities of an advanced dressing station, which was under shell fire, helping to remove wounded, carrying an officer to safety himself under heavy fire. He showed considerable gallantry on many subsequent occasions’. Scrimger survived the War and became Chief Surgeon of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada. He died in 1937. Scrimger’s son, Alexander, served as a Captain in the Canadian Army during World War Two (1939-1945). He was killed in action in Holland in 1944. Associated with 2nd Battle of Ypres, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). One of 103 cigarette cards, nd.

Ypres, 2nd Battle of, 1915 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)