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		Foote was held in German prisoner of war camps, where he helped maintain morale and provided ministerial services to all, regardless of denomination.
		John Weir Foote was finally liberated on April 25, 1945, when fellow prisoners of war reported to the authorities of the immense bravery and leadership provided by Capt. Foote, who on numerous occasions, and at great risk to himself, vigorously protested to the German authorities at the appaling conditions the men had to endure.
		John Weir Foote VC Branch, while the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage Museum, to whom he donated his Victoria Cross, is based at the Lt. Col.
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	Foote, John Weir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born in Madoc, Ontario, and serving with the Canadian Chaplain Services attached to the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, the Reverend John Foote was the first Canadian Chaplain to win the Victoria Cross.
		Landing with his regiment at Dieppe on August 19, 1942, Reverend Foote assisted the medical officer in tending to the wounded.
		The night after the raid, refusing to be taken into safety, Captain Foote surrendered to the Germans so he could continue to minister to his regiment.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /courage/footejohnweir.html (106 words)

	Rev. John Weir Foote - Veterans Affairs Canada
		John Weir Foote was born in Madoc, Ontario, on the 5
		Upon landing on the beach under heavy fire he attached himself to the Regimental Aid Post which had been set up in a slight depression on the beach, but which was only sufficient to give cover to men lying down.
		Honourary Captain Foote continued tirelessly and courageously to carry wounded men from the exposed beach to the cover of the landing craft.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/citations/foote (443 words)

	John Weir Foote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The only chaplain in World War II to receive the Victoria Cross, Foote was born and raised in Madoc.
		Assigned to the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Foote distinguished himself during the ill-fated Dieppe Raid on August 19, 1942.
		Acting "with utter disregard for his personal safety", he ministered to the wounded and carried injured personnel from exposed positions on the beach to first aid posts and landing craft, all while under heavy enemy fire.
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	The RHLI - Commanding Officers Welcome Message
		Hon LCol John Weir Foote, VC, CD John Weir Foote was born in Madoc, Ontario, on the 5
		On these occasions, with utter disregard for his personal safety, Honorary Captain Foote exposed himself to an inferno of fire and saved many lives by his gallant efforts.
		Honorary Captain Foote continued tirelessly and courageously to carry wounded men from the exposed beach to the cover of the landing craft.
	www.rhli.ca /veterans/foote_story.html (450 words)

	Monday, April 11, 1994 -- PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS (046) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Through eight hours of fighting John Foote repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire as he worked again and again to move the injured to an aid post.
		Foote and his comrades were held captive for the next three years.
		On August 19, 1942, at daybreak, a little under 5,000 Canadians were in position off the coast of Normandy, prepared to risk their lives to break through Hitler's defences, known as Fortress Europe, and to open the way toward liberation.
	www.parl.gc.ca /35/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/046_94-04-11/046PB1E.html (7126 words)

	Rev John Foote V.C.
		Foote was born in Madoc, Ontario, May 1904.
		Following the action described in the citation below, Foote was taken prisoner and was not released until May 5, 1945.
		Those who observed him state that the calmness of this heroic officer as he walked about, collecting the wounded on the fire-swept beach will never be forgotten.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /VC_Recipients/foote.htm (432 words)

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		John and Howard were not about to wait around the camp until the Russians decided to send them back to Allied lines.
		Padre John Weir Foote, also in the bag in 383, was the Canadian Chaplain who was awarded the VC for his valour at Dieppe.
		Captain Foote continued tirelessly and courageously to carry wounded men from the exposed beach to the cover of the landing craft.
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		John Foote STEVENSON was born on 27 Jul 1826 in Butler Co., Ohio.
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	Historical Plaques of Hastings County
		In 1869, at the urging of John B. McGann, a pioneer educator of the hearing impaired, the Ontario government sanctioned the establishment of the first provincial school for deaf children.
		JOHN WEIR FOOTE, V.C. The only chaplain in World War II to receive the Victoria Cross, Foote was born and raised in Madoc.
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	CNEW: - The greatest war heroes of them all
		Also at Dieppe, working with the regimental aid post, Foote ministered to the wounded in a slight depression on the beach and left the refuge repeatedly to give morphine to the exposed injured and carried them to safety under heavy fire.
		Foote removed wounded from a landing craft after ammunition inside began to ignite.
		He turned down opportunities to evacuate and instead remained with the injured, whom he continued to aid.
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	F's - www.victoriacross.co.uk
		On 30th June when a number of our tanks had been destroyed, he went on foot, from one tank to another, encouraging the crews under intense artillery and anti-tank fire.
		On 19th August, 1942 at Dieppe, France, Captain Foote coolly and calmly during the eight hours of the battle walked about collecting the wounded, saving many lives by his gallant efforts and inspiring those around him by his example.
		At the end of the gruelling time he climbed from the landing craft that was to have taken him to safety and deliberately walked into the German position in order to be taken prisoner so that he could be a help to those men who would be in captivity until the end of the war.
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	Dieppe
		The Reverend John W. Foote was the first member of the Canadian Chaplain Services to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
		grueling battle, Reverend Foote, Chaplain of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, continually exposed himself to very intense fire to help move the injured to an aid post, saving many lives by his gallant efforts.
		Then, at the end of this ordeal, he climbed from the landing craft that would have taken him to safety, and walked courageously into the German positions, to be taken prisoner and so to minister to those of his fellow Canadians who would be held behind barbed wire for the next three years.
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	Hamilton Spectator - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		JOHN WEIR FOOTE: Royal Hamilton Light Infantry chaplain awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry at Dieppe, calmly saving wounded men and later surrendering so he could minister to POWs.
		JOHN MUNRO: Liberal who represented Hamilton East in Parliament for 22 years, serving in several cabinet posts under Pierre Trudeau.
		JOHN SOPINKA: Supreme Court Justice described as the heart of the court, he was raised in north Hamilton and died unexpectedly in 1997.
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	Friend Barton's "Concern" by Mary Hallock Foote:
		She caught the sweetbrier's breath as she hurried by, and now a loop in the leafy curtain revealed the pond, lying fl in a hollow of the hills with a whole heaven of stars reflected in it.
		The sheep had been driven into the upper barn floor: the chickens were in the corn-bin; and old John and the cows had been transferred from the stable, that stood low, to the weighing floor of the mill.
		It was not Dorothy of the mill-head, or of Slocum's meadow, or the cold maid of the well; it was a very anxious, lonely little girl in a crumbling old house, with a foot of water in the cellar and a sick mother in the next room.
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		John Padgett, 1528 West Fifth Street, of the death of her cousin, Mrs.
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		Charles Smith Rutherford was born on January 9, 1892, one of four sons of Mr.
		John T. Rutherford, a farming couple who owned a spread of land in Haldimand Township, at R.R. 5, Colborne.
		In his childhood, he attended the Dudley Schoolhouse, which is situated just west of the home he now occupies with his daughter and son-in-law, Hugh and Dora Grant.
	www.cramahetownship.ca /community/history/capchas.html (1799 words)

	The Brandon Sun: Online Edition
		A slight earthquake shook the Pacific coast last night from southern British Columbia to northern Oregon.
		John Weir Foote, a Presbyterian padre who refused evacuation from shell-torn Dieppe beaches to stay behind and save the lives of wounded men has become Canada’s 14th Victoria Cross winner of the Second World War and the first chaplain of the Canadian Armed Forces ever to get the coveted medal.
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		Major Currie immediately entered the village alone on foot at last light through the enemy outposts to reconnoiter the German defences and extricate the crews of the disabled tanks, which he succeeded in doing in spite of heavy mortar fire.
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	19 August 1942
		A Canadian chaplain, John Foote, tended wounded on the beach and carried them to the boats to be taken off.
		Whilst participating in the Dieppe raid, destroyer HMS Berkeley is subjected to a number of air attacks which cause serious structural damage, requiring the ship to be abandoned and finally scuttled by a torpedo fired from HMS Albrighton 4 miles NW of Dieppe at 49 57N 01 04E.
		(Reverend) John Weir Foote (1904-88), Canadian Chaplain Services, assigned to the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, saved wounded and volunteered to leave the landing craft evacuating him and et himself be captured so that he could minister to PoWs (Victoria Cross)
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		John's older brother was the famed Rear Adm. Louis M. Goldsborough, who planned and executed the capture of Roanoke Island with Gen. Burnside in 1862.
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		After a 45 day trial, Gen. Porter was relieved of duty for failure to obey an order sent to him by Gen. John Pope, to attack a Rebel force headed by Jackson, at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
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	Doors Open Ontario - Doors Open Hamilton 2006
		This fine early English Gothic-style church, constructed of limestone with a Victorian truss roof, was the second Anglican church built in incorporated Hamilton.
		Built for Tunis B. Griffith, manager of the Hamilton Street Railway, and later home to Sir John S. Hendrie, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (1914 to 1919) and Major Ian S. Hendrie.
		This fine rural-gothic stone house, situated in the picturesque Dundas Valley, was built by John Heslop, first reeve of Ancaster Township.
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		Various raids had been planned, but the Dieppe raid was brought into reality only by the desires of the new Chief of Combined Operations, Louis Mountbatten.
		One of Mountbatten's principal assistants, Captain John Hughes-Hallett, served as Naval Commander of the raid.
		Three Victoria Crosses were awarded for the operation, one British (Patrick Anthony Porteous) and two Canadian (John Weir Foote, and Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt).
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	THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION -- About Us » Our Miltary heritage
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