Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R. (F.O. F. J. S. Guppy J23112) mounted from a contemporary silver brooch bar, good very fine £70-£90

Frederick John Sydney Guppy, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Air Force, and died on 2 October 1943, when, serving with No. 23 O.T.U., his Wellington was reported to have crashed into the sea off the Pembrokeshire coast, whilst on a night training exercise. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.