V.C. HERO IN FILMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1002, 19 June 1930, Page 17

V.C. HERO IN FILMS

MODEST SOLDIER-ACTOR A Canadian who is privileged to wear the coveted Victoria Cross, Britain’s great military decoration “for valour,” is wearing the uniform of a German soldier in the ranks in “All Quiet on the Western Front,’ universal’s picturisation of Erich Maria Kemarque’s sensational book ol tlie war. He is Fred Coppins, of Eos Angeles, one of Canada’s great heroes of the war, and it was not until recently, as T he picture was nearing completion that it was discovered he is a V.C. man. Coppins enlisted on August 6, 1914, and served throughout the war. . e went to France with the Canadisin light horse. It was at the battle of Amiens that lie won the Cross, probably the most difficult military decoration in the world to gain. “I got tangled up with some machine guns,” is all one can get from him about it. From official sources, however, it is learned Coppins was decorated for haring put three German machine commission singlehanded.