Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Cinque Ports Artillery Medal, obv. cannon, with soldiers and sailors to either side and seated Britannia with lion and standards above, rev. engraved, ‘Won by the Gun Detachment of Gunner William Forster, 22 June 1865’, 41mm., bronze; Victoria Cross, copy; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (65292 Pte. W. J. Dunbar); Temperance medals (7), S.T.A.1 (2); S.T.A.2 (2); A.T.A.I.5 (2); A.T.A.H.2, all unnamed, very fine (10) £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Kuriheka Collection of British Medals.

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Private William John Dunbar, 24th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), was killed in action on 17 September 1916, aged 36 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial. He was the husband of Catherine Ross (formerly Dunbar) of 278 McCord Street, Montreal.