Campaign Groups and Pairs

Pair: Sapper W. M. Bunce, Canadian Pioneers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 October 1917 British War and Victory Medals (463602 Spr. W. M. Bunce. Can. Pnr. Bn.) very fine Pair: Private L. Goudreau, Canadian Army Medical Corps British War and Victory Medals (684880 Pte. L. Goudreau. C.A.M.C.); together with an unofficial Jubilee Medal 1935, nearly very fine British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (2. Lieut. G. W. Ross.; 2504219 Spr. W. L. Mc Donald. C.E.) the second with the recipient’s ‘For Honourable Services’ silver badge, the reverse numbered ‘22547’; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (Capt. J. B. Harvey; 7569 Pte. A. W. Didwell. Linc. R.) generally very fine (10) £100-£140 --- William Maxim Bruce was born in Oxford on 8 May 1890, and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 31 July 1915. He served with the 123rd Canadian Pioneer Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 21 October 1917. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium. George William Ross was born in Montreal, Quebec, on 26 March 1894 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 6 July 1917. Posted to the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he served with them in England before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the (British) Royal Engineers on 26 April 1918, and was seconded for service as a Naval Balloon Officer to the Royal Air Force. He died from influenza aboard H.M.S. Warspite at Scapa Flow, Orkney, on 2 March 1919, and is buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.