Coulson Norman Mitchell Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering

The main building of the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering in CFB Gagetown is named in honour of Coulson Norman Mitchell who is the only Canadian Engineer to have been awarded the Victoria Cross. As a captain with 4th Canadian Engineer Battalion during the First World War, on the night 8/9 October 1918 during the Canadian attack north of Cambrai, he lead an engineer party that disarmed and removed the explosives from the main bridge across the Escaut Canal in the face of the enemy and under fire.