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{{short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Sergeant Major | name = Colin Fraser Barron | honorific_suffix = [[Victoria Cross|VC]] | image = Barron-cf.jpg | image_size = | caption = Colin Fraser Barron as a sergeant. | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1893|9|20}} | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1958|8|15|1893|9|20}} | birth_place = [[Baldavie]], Boyndie, Banffshire, Scotland | death_place = [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada | placeofburial = [[Prospect Cemetery]], Toronto (Sec 7 Lot 3562) | placeofburial_label = | placeofburial_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | birth_name = | allegiance = Canada | branch = [[Permanent Active Militia|Canadian Militia]] *[[Canadian Expeditionary Force]] [[Canadian Army]] | serviceyears = | rank = [[Sergeant-Major]] | servicenumber = No. 404017 | unit = [[1st Canadian Division]] *[[1st Canadian Infantry Brigade]] **[[3rd Battalion, CEF|3rd (Toronto) Battalion]] [[Royal Regiment of Canada]] | commands = | battles = [[World War I]] * [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] ** [[Battle of Passchendaele]] *** [[Second Battle of Passchendaele]] [[World War II]] | battles_label = | awards = [[Victoria Cross]] | relations = | laterwork = | signature = }} '''Colin Fraser Barron''' {{post-nominals|VC}} (20 September 1893 β 15 August 1958) was a Canadian recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces. <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:VCColinFraserBarronGrave.jpg|thumb|175px|Gravesite]] --> He was born at Boyndie, [[Banffshire]], Scotland,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/vcg-gcv/bio/barron-cf-eng.asp|title = Victoria Cross Bios - Colin Fraser Barron|date = 14 April 2009|access-date = 16 August 2012|archive-date = 22 May 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130522203526/http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/vcg-gcv/bio/barron-cf-eng.asp|url-status = dead}}</ref> a son of Margaret Walker Barron, a domestic servant. He was raised in a large household by his grandparents Joseph Barron & Mary (nΓ©e Reid) Barron along with his brother Alexander Barron and many other half-siblings and aunts and uncles. He emigrated to Canada in 1910, and enlisted in the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]] in 1914.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} Barron was 24 years old, and a [[Corporal]] in the 3rd (Toronto) Battalion, CEF during the First World War when he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the full citation for which reads as follows: {{Quote|For conspicuous bravery when in attack his unit was held up by three machine-guns. Corpl. Barron opened on them from a flank at point-blank range, rushed the enemy guns single-handed, killed four of the crew, and captured the remainder. He then, with remarkable initiative and skill, turned one of the captured guns on the retiring enemy, causing them severe casualties. The remarkable dash and determination displayed by this N.C.O. in rushing the guns produced far-reaching results, and enabled the advance to be continued.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30471|date=8 January 1918|page=723|supp=y}}</ref>}} He later achieved the rank of [[sergeant-major]], and during the Second World War he served with the [[Royal Regiment of Canada]]. ==References== {{reflist}} == Further reading == *[[Monuments to Courage]] (David Harvey, 1999) *[[The Register of the Victoria Cross]] (This England, 1997) *Scotland's Forgotten Valour (Graham Ross, 1995) *[[VCs of the First World War - Passchendaele 1917]] (Stephen Snelling, 1998) ==External links== * [http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=27002 Colin Barron digitized personnel file] * [https://legionmagazine.com/en/2005/05/the-passchendaele-nine-plus-one/ Legion Magazine Article on Colin Barron] * [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/vcg-gcv/bio/barron-cf-eng.asp Colin Fraser Barron profile on the ''Directorate of History and Heritage'' (DND)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522203526/http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/gal/vcg-gcv/bio/barron-cf-eng.asp |date=2013-05-22 }} * {{find a Grave | 7033973}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Barron, Colin Fraser}} [[Category:Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross]] [[Category:1893 births]] [[Category:1958 deaths]] [[Category:People from Boyndie]] [[Category:Scottish emigrants to Canada]] [[Category:Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers]] [[Category:Queen's Own Rifles of Canada soldiers]] [[Category:Canadian Army personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Military personnel from Aberdeenshire]] [[Category:Royal Regiment of Canada]] [[Category:Royal Regiment of Canada soldiers]]
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