Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant C. H. G. Ross, 1/7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment - the ‘Shiny Seventh’, late Private Canadian Forces

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. H. G. Ross.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, minor edge bruising overall, very fine (5) £70-£90

Colin Harold Graham Ross (listed on Canadian papers as ‘Barola’ instead of Harold) was born in the UK in November 1890. He was employed as a Bank Clerk by the Union Bank in Alsask, Saskatchewan, Canada. Ross attested for the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force in May 1916, as No. 255628 Private. He transferred as a Second Lieutenant to the London Regiment, and served with the 1/7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment - the ‘Shiny Seventh’, in the French theatre of war from 7 August 1918.