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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 451

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (141913 Pte. R. A. Gunn.), good very fine

Robert A. Gunn was born at Edinburgh on 7 January 1881 and by the time of the 1911 census was a Medical Student living at 44 George Square. He joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Niagara on 3 August 1915, landed in England with the 76th Battalion, and transferred to the 24th Battalion before moving to France. He suffered gun-shot wounds to the right thigh and subsequently died on 22 September 1916, aged 39 and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery.

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