Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Sapper J. J. Cranton, Canadian Engineers, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 29 March 1917

British War and Victory Medals (504430 Spr. J. J. Cranton. C.E.); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (504430 Spr. J. J. Cranton) last in case of issue, good very fine (3) £100-£140

John James Cranton was born in Inverness, Nova Scotia, on 8 June 1891, and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at St. Catherine’s on 17 March 1916. He served with the 9th Field Company, 3rd Division Canadian Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 July 1916, and was dangerously wounded in action by shell fire on 29 March 1917. Admitted to 42 Casualty Clearing Station, he died of his wounds later that day, and is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France.