Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Private R. J. Lewis, 8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded on the Western Front on 2 September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (234816 Pte. R. J. Lewis. 8/Man. R.); British War and Victory Medals (234816 Pte. R. J. Lewis. 8-Can. Inf.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

Roy James Lewis was born at Linngrove, Iowa, United States of America on 21 July 1896 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Lajord, Saskatchewan, on 22 April 1916. He served with the 8th Battalion, Manitoba Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front, and was wounded by gunshot to the left shoulder, head, and chest on 2 September 1918. Awarded the Military Medal, he was discharged medically unfit due to wounds, on 4 July 1919. He died in Vancouver on 20 June 1973.