Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance to Private H. J. Gardner, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, who died of wounds on 17 April 1917

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘706418 Pte. H. J. Gardner’, nearly extremely fine £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Henry John Gardner was born in London, England, on 17 October 1884. A Logger by occupation, he enlisted into the 103rd Battalion at Victoria, B.C., in December 1915, but was serving with the 5th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, when he died of wounds on 17 April 1917 - having been dangerously wounded by shrapnel to the legs, head and hand. He was buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. Gardner was the son of Emma Lydia Parrett, of 118 Rathbone Street, Canning Town, London; sold with copied service papers.