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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 452

Three: Private G. Thorn, 58th (Central Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action in December 1916

British War and Victory Medals (210912 Pte. G. Thorn. 58-Can. Inf.); Canadian Memorial Cross (210912 Pte. G. Thorn), good very fine (4)

George Thorn was born in Lamington, Hampshire on 4 November 1884, the son of John and Verena Thorn of Bibury, Gloucestershire. He was living at Niagara Falls, Ontario when the war began and attested for service with the 58th (Central Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry at Niagara Falls on 26 January 1915. They saw heavy fighting on the Somme with Thorn being killed in action after the offensive ended on 19 December 1916; sold together with copied research and a C.D. of additional research.

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£100