Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross (3), G.V.R. (A.49519 A/Sgt. J. Hyde); G.VI.R. (A.107085 Cfn. H. N. MacKinnon; 37461 Pte. W. G. Thomson) last with pin-back suspension, very fine (3) £100-£140

John Hyde, Kent Regiment, R.C.I.C., died at home on 11 January 1941, aged 27, and is buried in Chatham (Maple Leaf) Cemetery, Ontario, Canada.
Hugh Neil MacKinnon, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, died at home on 16 July 1945, aged 19, and is buried in Windsor (St. Alphonsus) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Ontario, Canada.

Note: The first 5,000 or so Canadian Memorial Crosses issued to Canadian personnel who died during the Second World War were from residual Great War stock, bearing George V’s cypher ‘GRI’; subsequent issues bore George VI’s cypher ‘GviR’.