Merritt, Charles Cecil Ingersoll
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▪ 2001
Canadian military officer and lawyer (b. Nov. 10, 1908, Vancouver, B.C.—d. July 12, 2000, Vancouver), received the British Commonwealth's highest award for valour in combat, the Victoria Cross, after he led a battalion of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during an ill-fated 1942 raid on Dieppe, France. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont., Merritt read for the bar and practiced law before moving from the reserves to active duty in the Canadian army at the outbreak of World War II. A lieutenant colonel in 1942, he led his battalion in a daring attempt to dislodge German troops from cliffs overlooking the port city of Dieppe. Although many of the battalion's objectives were attained, the raid failed as a whole, and Merritt was captured. He spent the next three years as a prisoner of war. Upon his return to Canada, Merritt briefly entered politics, serving in the Canadian Parliament from 1945 to 1949, before resuming his law practice.
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