Canadian Memorial Crosses (4)

Canadian Memorial Crosses (4), George VI: i) (CAPTAIN G. C. VANART); ii) (126144 SGT. T. PHILLIPS); iii) (65796 PTE. W. POWNEY); iv) (B.115366 PTE. R. A. SAWYER); good very fine or better. [4]

Captain Guy Carlton Vanart served in the Great War with the Canadian Army Medical Corps and died in May 1953. Sergeant Thomas Phillips attested for the C.E.F. in 1915 and died in 1952. Private William Powney attested in Montreal 03/11/1914 and was subject to military discipline on various occasions for being absent without leave and for stealing from a fellow soldier, before suffering gunshot wounds to the chest, hand and thigh in October 1918. Private Robert Arthur Sawyer served in the Second World War with the R.C.A.M.C. before being discharged unfit and dying of chronic nephritis in Toronto in 1950.