A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Private G. R. Barnes, 2nd (Eastern Ontario Regiment) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who died of wounds in France in October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (639315 Pte. G. R. Barnes, 2/E. Ont. R.), together with his Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘639315 Pte. G. R. Barnes, M.M.’, with straight-bar suspension, extremely fine (2) £450-500

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

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M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

George Rueben Barnes was born in London, England, on 1 October 1897. Living in Brockville, Ontario, and a Machinist by occupation, he enlisted into the 156th (Leeds and Grenville) Battalion at Brockville on 1 February 1916 and arrived in England in October of the same year. Taken on to the strength of the 2nd Battalion (East Ontario Regiment) in France in July 1917, Barnes was severely wounded on 3 September 1917, suffering a gunshot wound to the face. He died on 16 October 1918, aged 18 years and was buried in the Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun; sold with copied service papers and other research.