Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (M.22 Bdr. K. R. Fleetwood) in box of issue; together with a George VI Canadian dollar, the reverse erased and neatly engraved ‘War 1940 Presented to Bdr. J. Fleetwood 20A/T Bty. by Friends and Neighbors before proceeding overseas. As a token of esteem’, good very fine

New Zealand Memorial Cross, E.II.R., an unnamed specimen, with pin-back suspension, extremely fine

An unattributed group of four miniature dress medals
Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, mounted for wear, good very fine (7) £80-£100

Kenneth Roy Fleetwood, Royal Canadian Artillery, died at home on 11 August 1940, aged 19, and is buried in Leithbridge (Mountain View) Cemetery, Alberta, 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’.