Orders, Decorations and Medals

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (65923 Pte. J. A. Spalding) good very fine £50-70

Private James Archibald Spalding, 24th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), was killed in action on 15 August 1917, aged 33 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial. He was the son of Archibald and Isabella Spalding of 18 Kemp Place, Edinburgh, and the husband of Mary Stewart Spalding of 72 St. Bernards Row, Edinburgh.