Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of six awarded to Private H. V. Cruse, Canadian Army Medical Corps

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s breast badge, silver and enamel, unnamed, edge bruise; British War and Victory Medals (860052 Pte., C.A.M.C.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, no clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, these unnamed; Canadian Corps of Commissionaire’s Medal, 1 clasp, ‘Labor Omnia Vincit’, silver emblem on ribbon, reverse of medal inscribed, ‘H. V. Cruse’, mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £100-140

Harold Victor Cruse was born in London, England on 6 June 1890. A Farmer by occupation and a member of the 179th Cameron Highlanders of Canada, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg on 17 May 1916. He served with the C.A.M.C. in France from December 1917, serving with the 8th Canadian Stationary Hospital. He was discharged on 3 June 1919.

Cruse, then employed as a Cashier, enlisted once more, at Saskatoon on 8 September 1942. He served with the 36th Company Veterans Guard of Canada and was discharged on 4 May 1944.

Harold and his wife Sarah Lydia Cruse, started the first St. John’s Ambulance branch in Saskatoon when they moved there after the Second World War. As a Commissionaire, he was assigned to the Courthouse at Saskatoon. Sold with a quantity of copied service papers.