were subsequently commissioned from the ranks and went on to serve as officers in other Canadian and British units. Captain Molson joined the Patricia's in the field with the 2nd University Company in October 1915. In June 1916, he was badly wounded in the Battle of Mount Sorrel at Sanctuary Wood near Hooge, West Flanders in Belgium. During horrific encounters with the German Army, where members of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions suffered 8,430 casualties, Percival Molson received the Military Cross for his valour. After recovering from his wounds, he returned to the front lines with his Regiment (PPCLI) and on July 5, 1917, at the outskirts of Avion, Pas-de-Calais near Vimy Ridge in France, Captain Percival Molson was killed by a direct hit from a German howitzer. Captain Molson is interred in the Villers Station Cemetery in Villers-au-Bois in Pas-de-Calais. In Percival Molson's will he left $75,000 to McGill University to help pay most of the costs for the construction of the stadium. Although it was officially dedicated as McGill Graduates' Stadium at an intercollegiate track meet on October 22, 1915, the Board of Governors of the university renamed the facility Percival Molson Memorial Stadium on October 25, 1919, in honour of this fallen hero. In 1996, Captain Percival Molson was an inaugural inductee to the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame. See also List of Olympians killed in World War I References External links 1880 births 1917 deaths Anglophone Quebec people Athletes (track and field) at the 1904 Summer Olympics Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees Canadian ice hockey players Canadian male long jumpers Canadian military personnel killed in World War I Ice hockey people from Quebec McGill Redbirds football players McGill Redmen ice hockey players Percival Molson Olympic track and field athletes of Canada Canadian people of English descent People from Bas-Saint-Laurent Players of Canadian football from Quebec Canadian recipients of the Military Cross Sport at McGill University Stanley Cup champions Canadian military personnel from Quebec Canadian Expeditionary Force officers Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry officers