Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Passchendaele M.M. group of three awarded to Gunner J. H. McMunn, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (701255 Gnr. J. H. McMunn, 40/By. Can. F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (701255 Gnr., J. H. McMunn, C.F.A.), good very fine (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918. The original recommendation states:

‘For bravery, determination and devotion to duty. In the attack north of Passchendaele on 10 November 1917, Signaller McMunn accompanied the F.O.O. forward. When communication by lamp was impossible, signaller McMunn made two trips, one by day and one by night, back to signalling station, about one and half miles in rear under heavy barrages and through almost impassable swampy and shell torn ground, with important messages.’

John Howard McMunn was born in County of Lanark, Canada, on 4 April 1893. A Telephone Man by occupation, he attested for the 101st (Winnipeg Light Infantry) Battalion at Winnipeg in March 1916 and arrived in England that July. Entering France in May 1917 he was posted to the 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column and then the 10th Brigade C.F.A., gaining his M.M. for the above cited deeds at Passchendaele in November 1917. Appointed a Signaller in August 1918, he was discharged at Winnipeg in April 1919; sold with copied service papers.