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Robert Hampton Gray

What's Happening Posted on August 08, 2025

On Saturday, August 9, on both coasts, Canadians are honouring Nelsonite Lt. Robert Hampton Gray, a Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve pilot who served with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. On August 9, 1945, Lt. Gray was killed in combat and was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross; he was the last Canadian to receive this honour. In his memory, the Royal Canadian Navy is naming its sixth Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship HMCS Robert Hampton Gray. Here in Nelson, a plaque outside the Government of Canada Gray Building on Vernon Street, installed in 2002, shares his remarkable story.

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