Victoria Cross sold at auction to Canadian War Museum for $240,000

Misc CDN | 589 hits | May 25 8:02 pm | Posted by: Hyack

Fears that a Victoria Cross medal belonging to a Canadian war hero would be auctioned off to a private collector were allayed Monday evening when the Canadian War Museum bought it for $240,000.

Comments

by Hitchy
Tue May 26, 2009 4:54 pm
what a joke, the sacrifice some men made to earn that medal cant be bought.
by Proculation
Tue May 26, 2009 5:04 pm
haha I really thought it was 2$...
by Guy_Fawkes
Tue May 26, 2009 5:08 pm
I did too.
by Proculation
Tue May 26, 2009 5:09 pm
It should be made illegal to sell like the medal of honor in the US.
by GreenTiger
Tue May 26, 2009 10:08 pm
You can't put a price on the valor of the folks who earned that medal. Medals like that may be given, but should NEVER be sold.
by EyeBrock
Tue May 26, 2009 10:41 pm
It's valour up here mate. That's what it says on the VC. "For Valour" Not being too picky am I ?
by EyeBrock
Tue May 26, 2009 11:31 pm
And here's the new Canadian version of the VC. No English words so as to bring the VC up to date. Latin offends nobody, not even the French-speaking Canadians. God Bless those Romans!