Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 374 x

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£100

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Louis James Lemyre) with associated slip in card envelope; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (B.62078 Cpl. R. W. Smith) suspended from an ornate silver brooch in the form of a ribbon bow; with a further silver ribbon bow brooch, good very fine and better (3) £90-110

Sapper Louis James Lemyre, Canadian Railway Troops, died of phthisis (tuberculosis) on 17 January 1920, aged 24 years. He was buried in Gravenhurst St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Cemetery. He was the son of Annie Lemyre, of Gravenhust, Ontario, and the late Almidy Lemyre; and the husband of M. Lemyre, of 849 Lansdowne Avenue, West Toronto, Ontario.