Hometown hero: Victoria Cross winner from Edmonton honoured a century later

On the night of April 27, 1918, George Burdon McKean, a Canadian soldier from Edmonton on the front lines of the First World War decided to take matters into his own hands.
A machine-gun nest along the Lys River in France was causing trouble for the Royal Montreal Regiment. McKean charged by himself into the German trench where he landed on a startled enemy soldier. A sniper by trade, he was able to hold several German soldiers back fighting solo, giving his regiment enough time to join him