Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Patrolman T. H. Greenwood, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, in their card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘T. H. Greenwood, Patrolman, R.C.N. (R.)’, extremely fine (4) £100-120

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

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Thomas Henry Greenwood was born in Lancashire, England, on 12 October 1908. A Salesman for Gilchrists Baking Company at Toronto, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Patrolman in May 1944.

Having then served at several shore establishments in Canada, and been advanced to Leading Patrolman, he was embarked for England that October, where he was tasked with maintaining discipline in the ranks of the R.C.N.V.R. while on leave in London. Re-embarked for Canada in early 1946, he died of illness back in Toronto in April 1947. The husband of Rose Greenwood of Mimico, Ontario, he was 42 years of age and was buried in Toronto Mount Pleasant Cemetery.