Thomas William Holmes

Thomas William Holmes VC was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and 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 British and Commonwealth forces, during the First World War. Holmes is the youngest Canadian to ever win the Victoria Cross.

14 October 1898

Born on the same birth day (14 October): Alexei Kasatonov • Colin Hodgkinson • Eddie Keher • Jerry Glanville • Max Thieriot • Michel Després • Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg • Przemysł II • Reginald Doherty • Rocky Thompson (golfer) • Rowan Blanchard • Scott Kooistra • Stephen A. Smith • Thom Brooks • Yukio Sakurauchi

Born in the same month (October 1898): Adolf Reichwein • Bill Terry • Dámaso Alonso • Eduard Pütsep • Eileen Sedgwick • Joe Sewell • Karl Anton • Leo McCarey • Lilly Daché • Lotte Lenya • Nachum Gutman • Peng Dehuai • Simon Vestdijk • William O. Douglas