Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Skipper J. M. Smith, Royal Canadian Navy
British War and Victory Medals (J. M. Smith. Skpr. R.C.N.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; together with the recipient’s Canadian General Service lapel badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘335960’, good very fine

Five: Driver F. F. Baron, Canadian Field Artillery, who was wounded at Ypres on 13 June 1916
British War and Victory Medals (J. M. Smith. Skpr. R.C.N.); Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with Overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, mounted as worn; together with a Barnardo’s Homes Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, 51mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Frank Barron’, edge bruising to last, nearly very fine (11) £100-£140

Frank Frederick Barron was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 11 January 1897 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Kingston, Ontario, on 1 November 1915. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front, and was wounded by gun shot to the right hand at Ypres on 13 June 1916. He subsequently served with an anti-aircraft unit, and was discharged on 8 April 1919. He saw further service as a corporal with the Royal Canadian Artillery during the Second World War.

Sold with copied research.

Skipper James Smith is believed to have died in 1942, therefore the Second War medals and general service badge are, therefore, not his.