Three: Leading Seaman W. M. Griffin, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was invalided ashore in December 1945

Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, in their card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, E.II.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘A-6099 L./Smn. W. M. Griffin’, with bar suspension, in its case of issue, extremely fine (4) £140-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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William Michael Griffin was born at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, on 14 May 1908. Enlisting in the Canadian Active Service Force as a Private in October 1940, he was assigned to the Canadian Postal Corps in Ottawa, but in December 1943, he transferred to the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, in which capacity he was once more employed on postal duties - but, from the summer of 1944, in England.

Advanced to Leading Seaman, he returned to Canada in early 1945 and was discharged from the land base H.M.C.S. Chippawa at Winnipeg in that December, having contracted Hodgkins Disease. He died at St. James, Manitoba, in May 1965; sold with copied service record.