The Sergeant Thomas Ricketts V.C. Memorial was erected on June 10, 1972. It was taken down in 2008 to be refurbished and not re-installed until 2021. The memorial is located at the corner where he ran a drugstore after the war. It opened in 1934 and Ricketts was known to many as the primary health-care provider for the west end of St. John's.
Thomas Ricketts enlisted in the First World War in September 1916 when he was only 15 years old. In October 1918, he was one of the few Newfoundlanders to be awarded the Victoria Cross. He was still not old enough to be on the front.
Private Ricketts' family donated his Victoria Cross to the Canadian War Museum in 2003. Ricketts, who died in 1967 at the age of 65, was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre during the First World War.
