Special Collections

Sold between 21 September & 2 April 2003

3 parts

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Medals to The Gordon Highlanders and Associated Units from the Collection of A.J. Henderson

Arnold James Henderson

Lot

№ 134

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2 April 2003

Hammer Price:
£220

Five: Private R. J. McCormick, The Toronto Scottish

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, both silver; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal, with ‘Overseas’ clasp, together with related Candian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed ‘B 76697 Pte. R. J. McCormick’, extremely fine (6) £100-120

Robert James McCormick, who served in the Toronto Scottish (M.G.), died on 18 September 1944, and is buried in the Calais Southern Cemetery at the Pas de Calais. He left a wife, Ellen Margaret McCormick, who at the time of his death was residing in Newhaven, Sussex.