Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private J. Pinnegar, 16th Canadian Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (403128 Pte., 16-Can.Inf.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (James Pinnegar) very fine (3)

James Pinnegar enlisted in the 34th battalion, C.E.F., at Guelph, 14 April, 1915, and served in France with the 16th battalion and laer the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He received a gunshot wound in the right knee in June 1916 and, after convalescing in England, returned to France the following August. In April 1917, however, he was again severely wounded by a gunshot in the left forearm, and served the remainder of the war with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. According to his death certificate he died at Windsor, Ontario, on 6 January, 1928.