![]() ![]() ![]() A short time after the charge, Dunn resigned his commission and returned to Canada, taking Mrs. In the charge, Dunn saved two soldiers of his own regiment at great personal risk and was a unanimous vote for the VC when the survivors were polled by Colonel Douglas. He carried an extra long custom made sabre. He was known as one of the handsomest men in the British army and he stood an alarming 6' 3" at a time when the average height of a cavalry man was much less. He is VC # 17, the order being determined by regimental precedence.ĭunn purchased a commission in the 11th Husssars in 1852 and took part in the famous charge on Oct. ![]() Dunn won his VC in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava and he was a participant in the first VC investiture in 1857. Alexander Dunn, the first Canadian and Commonwealth born winner of the Victoria Cross. ![]()
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