Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant J. R. Clements, Canadian Engineers, late Grenadier Guards Mounted Infantry

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902,3 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9001 Pte. J. Clements. Gren: Gds: M.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. R. Clements.) court mounted and professionally cleaned and lacquered, very fine or better (4) £700-900

M.C. London Gazette 4 October 1919.

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On the night of 8/9th October , 1918, he was in charge of a party of sappers detailed to build a bridge over the Canal de l’Escaut to enable the infantry to cross to the attack. After man-handling general service wagons, loaded with material along a road under heavy fire, he pushed forward ahead and personally reconnoitred the bridge site. The bridge was completed under heavy shell fire, causing several casualties, and the infantry passed over it twenty-five minutes after the party arrived on the work.’