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Thomas George Prince
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War hero.
A Saulteaux Ojibwe born at Petersfield on 25 October 1915, son of Anabella Louisa Chief, grandson of Chief Peguis, he was Canada’s most decorated Indigenous soldier in the Second World War, receiving ten medals, most with the Canadian-American detachment known as the “Devil’s Brigade”. After the war he toured the province agitating for Indigenous treaty rights. During the Korean War, he served with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and was crippled by machine-gun fire in battle. He later lived in poverty in Winnipeg, dying at the Deer Lodge Hospital on 26 November 1977. He was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tommy Prince Plaque (Scanterbury, Brokenhead Ojibway Nation)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tommy Prince Monument (Kildonan Park, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Flora Place / Sergeant Tommy Prince MM Veterans Park (100 Battery Street, Winnipeg)
Birth registration [Thomas George Prince], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Tommy Prince to get pauper’s burial,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 November 1977, page 1.
“Crowds flock to see Prince laid to rest,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 December 1977, page 95.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 February 2025
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