A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

Pair: Gunner T. P. Wims, Canadian Field Artillery, who died of disease in November 1918

British War and Victory Medals (1251853 Gnr. T. P. Wims, C.F.A.), together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘1251853 Gnr. T. P. Wims’, good very fine and better (3) £120-160

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

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Thomas Peter Wims was born in Deseronto, Ontario, on 31 July 1894. A Stenographer by occupation, he enlisted into the 79th Battery, C.F.A., at Montreal in April 1917 and went out to France that November with the 4th Canadian Divisional Trench Mortar Battery. Wims died of broncho-pneumonia at the 3rd Scottish General Hospital, Stobhill, Glasgow, on 26 November 1918, and was buried in the Glasgow Western Necropolis; sold with copied service papers.