William Henry Metcalf VC, MM & Bar (29 January 1894 – 8 August 1968)[citation needed] was an American soldier in the Canadian Army during World War I. Metcalf was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Metcalf is one of six Canadian soldiers to be awarded the Victoria Cross on 2 September 1918 for actions across the 30-kilometre-long (19 mi) Drocourt-Quéant Line near Arras, France.

[1] The other six are: Bellenden Hutcheson, Arthur George Knight, Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, Cyrus Wesley Peck, Walter Leigh Rayfield and John Francis Young.

William Henry Metcalf, M.M., Manitoba R. For most conspicuous bravery, initiative and devotion to duty in attack, when, the right flank of the battalion being held up, he realised the situation and rushed forward under intense machine-gun fire to a passing Tank on the left.

With his signal flag he walked in front of the Tank, directing it along the trench in a perfect hail of bullets and bombs.