A FIRST WORLD WAR TRIO, PLAQUE AND MEMORIAL CROSS TO A CANAD...

Hammer

£260

A FIRST WORLD WAR TRIO, PLAQUE AND MEMORIAL CROSS TO A CANADIAN SOLDIER. A Great War trio comprising 1914-15 Star named to 642 Pte J. Baron Can AMC. War Medal and Victory medal similarly named to Baron with the C.A.M.C. Medals mounted as worn. With a memorial plaque named to John Baron, a Canadian Memorial Cross, three badges, a photograph of the recipient in uniform and 1914-15 Star enclosure note and paragraph of text. All mounted and framed and glazed. With a further image of Baron in uniform, a handkerchief sent home as a present for his mother and a letter dated 9th March 1916 from a Nursing Sister No.8 Casualty Clearing Station informing Mrs Baron of the death of her son. 'I am sorry to say I have very bad news for you… your husband… seriously wounded and now I must tell you he passed away yesterday at 6.30pm. John Baron was born c. 1885, the son of John and Elizabeth Baron and husband to Margaret Elizabeth Baron of 6 Lower Brook St, Ulverston, Lancashire. He served with the 5th Field Ambulance of the Canadian Army Medical Corps as well as the Canadian Army Service Corps. Having previously served with the Territorials he travelled to the battlefields from Montreal aboard the S.S. Scandinavia. He died from wounds on the 8th March 1916, having been severely injured the previous day. Despite having his feet amputated his life could not be saved. At the time of his death he was 31 years old. He is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, his headstone reads 'At Rest'. Overall 47 x 57cm *Condition: BluTac marks to back of medals, plaque and memorial cross not examined out of mount.