Merritt Crescent is named for Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, the first Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross in the Second World War. An officer in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada from 1929, he transferred to the South Saskatchewan Regiment in 1942, and as a Lieutenant Colonel, commanded a battalion during the Dieppe raid. Captured while covering the withdrawal of his troops, he spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war. He received the Victoria Cross for the valour he displayed at Dieppe.