A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance of Corporal J. R. Kemp, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘H. 10387 Cpl. J. R. Kemp’, good very fine £60-80

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

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James Roger Kemp was born in Midlothian, Scotland, on 28 February 1904. A Book Keeper and Stenographer by occupation, living at 342 Atlantic Avenue, Winnipeg, he enlisted at Winnipeg in June 1943, but died of disease on 24 June 1945. He was buried in the Winnipeg (Elmwood) Cemetery; sold with a quantity of copied service papers.