the Houston Worldfest 2017 The Victoria Cross decoration The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa purchased Konowal's Victoria Cross and other medals in 1969. The decoration went missing sometime in the 1970s, apparently stolen, and was sold to an antique shop along with some Hawaiian coins in the mid-1990s. The shop owner believed the decoration was a fake, as it was inscribed with "For Valour" – evidently not realizing that all VCs awarded to Canadians had the English motto. (The source of confusion was the fact that a new Canadian VC was introduced into the Canadian Honours System in 1993, bearing the Latin motto Pro Valore). The decoration was rediscovered when the shop owner offered it to the Jeffrey Hoare Auction House in London, Ontario in April 2004. A British collector discovered the auction and notified Lubomyr Luciuk, co-author of a booklet about Konowal, who took steps to have the decoration secured. It was recovered by the police and returned to permanent display at the War Museum on 23 August 2004, 87 years after it was awarded. References Bibliography Lubomyr Y. Luciuk and Ron Sorobey. Konowal: a Canadian Hero, 2nd ed. Kingston, Ontario: Kashtan Press for the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 360, 2000. . Mitch Potter (13 October 2007) "Village honours our valiant soldier: Victoria Cross winner in WWI never learned Ukrainian wife, child survived Stalin's purges". TheStar.com. URL accessed 13 October 2007. Ron Sorobey. Filip Konowal, VC: The Rebirth of a Canadian Hero. Lubomyr Luciuk, "A Canadian Hero: Corporal Filip Konowal, VC and the Battle of Hill 70," Kingston, Ontario: Kashtan Press, 2017. . External links Filip Konowal, V.C.. Biography by Lubomyr Y. Luciuk and Ron Sorobey Legion Magazine Article on Filip Konowal Filip Konowal's digitized service file Feat of Corporal Konoval. Officer who glorified Ukraine. Om TV (YouTube). 1 February 2016 1887 births 1959 deaths People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast People from Kamenets-Podolsky Uyezd Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Canada Imperial Russian Army personnel Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers Canadian military personnel of the Russian Civil War Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross People acquitted by reason of insanity People acquitted of murder Canadian Army soldiers Canadian military personnel of World War I Royal Westminster Regiment Burials at Notre-Dame Cemetery (Ottawa)