Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson (VC, MC) was an American 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.

He was 34 years old, and a Captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps , Canadian Expeditionary Force, attd. 75th Bn., 1st Central Ontario Regiment, C.E.F. during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 2 September 1918 in France, Captain Hutcheson went through the Queant Drocourt Support Line with his battalion, remaining on the field until every wounded man had been attended to. He dressed the wounds of a seriously hurt officer under terrific machine-gun and shell fire, and with the help of prisoners and his own men succeeded in evacuating the officer to safety. Immediately afterwards he rushed forward in full view of the enemy to attend a wounded sergeant and having placed him in a shell-hole, dressed his wounds.

Also considered Canadian.

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• Captain B.S. Hutcheson

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