George Richardson, V.C. 1831-1923

Photo by Alan L Brown - May 8, 2005

Plaque Location

The District of Muskoka
The Town of Bracebridge
In Vankoughnet, in a park on the north side at 1193 Vankoughnet Road

Plaque Text

Private Richardson won the Victoria Cross while fighting with the Border Regiment of the British Army in northern India during the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59. As part of an attachment sent to dislodge rebels in the hills of the Kewarie Trans-Gogra district on April 27, 1859, he displayed "determined courage in having, though severely wounded... closed with and secured a rebel Sepoy (Indian soldier) armed with a broad revolver". An Irishman by birth, Richardson came to Canada in the early 1860s. During the 1880s and 1890s he lived on a farm one kilometre southwest of here. He held numerous township offices, including Reeve of Oakley Township (1895-96).

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