Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘J. McDill. Cadgers Road. Hurlford’, good very fine £40-£50

John McDill was a native of Hurlford, Ayr, Scotland and attested for the Royal Scots at Ayr on 2 June 1917 aged 18 years and 31 days. He served with the 5/6th Battalion in France from 2 April 1918 and was killed in action on 2 October 1918. The son of John and Janet McDill of Galston Road, Hurlford, Ayr, he is buried in Sequehart British Cemetery No. 2 near St. Quentin, France.