Six: Warrant Officer Class 1 J. Trainor, 13th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, late Royal Canadian Regiment, who was taken P.O.W. at Ypres in April 1915: a long served member of the Militia and a crack shot, he represented Canada at Bisley in 1934 and 1937

1914-15 Star (24061 C. Sjt. J. Trainor, 13/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (24061 C. Sjt. J. Trainor, 13-Can. Inf.); Jubilee 1935 (No. 12500 S.M.1 (W.O.1) J. Trainor, R.C.R.); Coronation 1937; Permanent Forces of the Empire L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (S.M.1 (W.O. Cl. 1) J. Trainor, R.C.R.), together with related Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘C20508’ and a Canadian School Competition Medal 1900, bronze, unnamed, good very fine and better (8) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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John Trainor, who was born at Port Hope, near Toronto, in March 1880, was a long standing member of the Militia and Royal Canadian Regiment by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914.

Enlisting in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in September 1914, he went out to France as a Colour Sergeant in the 13th Battalion, Canadian Infantry in the following year, and was taken P.O.W. at Ypres on 24 April 1915, on which occasion he was also mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 22 June 1915 refers). Following incarceration in Germany and Holland, he was repatriated to the U.K. in January 1919 and thence to Canada, where he rejoined the strength of the Permanent Forces as a Warrant Officer 1st Class in the Royal Canadian Regiment.

Awarded his Permanent Forces of the Empire L.S. & G.C. in GO 84 of 1927, he was discharged in November 1936. Trainor, who represented Canada at Bisley in 1934 and 1937, died in February 1953.

Sold with a quantity of original career photographs (approximately 45 images), including scenes from Bisley in 1934 and 1937, an Overseas Bisley Teams menu, dated 23 July 1937, with numerous autographs to reverse, and copied service records.