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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 327

Three: Armourer Quarter-Master Sergeant H. Grute, Canadian Ordnance Corps, late Canadian Post Office Corps and Canadian Field Artillery

1914-15 Star (42034 Amr. Q.M. Sjt. H. Grute, Can. Fd. Art.); British War and Victory Medals (42034 Armr. Q.M. Sjt. H. Grute, C.F.A.), extremely fine (3)

Herbert Grute was born in Plumstead, Kent on 14 December 1876. He subsequently settled in Canada, where he found employment as a mechanical engineer and served in the Canadian Post Office Corps.

Enlisting in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary at Valcartier in September 1914, he was drafted to 3rd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery in France and Flanders in April 1915 and likely saw action at Ypres. A month or two later, he was posted to the Canadian Reserve Brigade at Shorncliffe, from whence he attended an artificer's course and gained an appointment as an Armourer Q.M. Sergeant in the Canadian Ordnance Corps. It was in this capacity that he was admitted to the Military Hospital Ashford with a fractured right radius in November 1918. He was finally discharged back in Canada - at Halifax, Nova Scotia - in September 1919.

Grute appears to have returned to the U.K. in the early 1920s, where he settled at Dartford in Kent. He died in August 1942; sold with copied research.

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