Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Major J. D. Gunn, Canadian Forces
British War and Victory Medals (Major J. D. Gunn)

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘675904 Pte. B. Poole’, good very fine and better (3) £120-160

With papers to Captain James David Gunn, Canadian Infantry, but believed to be the medals of Major Jeremiah Donald Gunn, British Columbia Regiment (no papers).

Bruce Poole was born in Norwich, Ontario, on 25 August 1896. A Student by occupation, he enlisted into the 168th (Oxford County) Battalion at Norwich in April 1916 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion out in France, in which capacity he was wounded in action on 16 September 1917, taking shrapnel wounds to the right leg during the Second Battle of Ypres. Transferred to the 18th Battalion, he was killed in action on 11 October 1918, and was buried in the Niagara Cemetery, Iwuy; sold with copied service papers.