Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Company Sergeant-Major J. F. Sexton, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, killed in action, Passchendaele, 30 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals ((476015 A.C.S. Mjr., P.P.C.L.I.) overstriking on ‘j’; Memorial Plaque (James Felix Sexton); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘476015 Sgt. J. F. Sexton’, in case of issue; together with a renamed Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal (7472 Pte. J. Sexton, Liverpool Regt.) ‘Natal’ clasp a copy, very fine and better (5) £220-260

James Felix Sexton was born on 26 August 1882 in Portslade, Sussex. A Warehouseman by occupation, he enlisted on 9 July 1915. Serving with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), he was killed in action at Passchendaele on 30 October 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His next of kin was stated to be Amelia Hannah Sexton, of 834 10th Street, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

With original slips to accompany the Memorial Plaque and Cross; also with a hand-written note from Amelia Hannah Powley, dated 19 January 1927, re. the disposal of the medals after her death.