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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 481

(x) Eight: Corporal J. D. Gillmore, United States Navy, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor

United States of America, Navy Good Conduct Medal, 3 clasps, Second Award, Third Award, Fourth Award (James D. Gillmore 1943), cased; American Defense Medal, 1 clasp, Base, cased; Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal; American Campaign Medal, cased; World War II Victory Medal; National Defense Medal; Korean Service Medal, cased, with Pearl Harbor Survivor’s Commemorative Medal, bronze, in case of issue, overall very fine (8)

James Daniel Gillmore was born in Skagit, Washington on 23 January 1915 to John Daniel Gillmore and his wife Harriette Theodosia Wade. Gillmore attended Mount Vernon High School in the early 1930s and in 1935 was listed in the U.S. Federal Census at living at sea as a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps. Gillmore enlisted with the U.S. Navy on 6 November 1940 and as a Pearl Harbor survivor must have been stationed in Oahu, Hawaii when the attack occurred there on 7 December 1941.

Gillmore was discharged from the Navy on 2 October 1961 and records from 1972 reveal him living in San Diego, California. At some stage he was married to Miss Louise Guerrant, with whom he spent his final years in Maryland. He died at Potomac, Maryland on 11 February 1989 and was buried at the Parklawn Memorial Park and Menorah Gardens in Rockville. His wife joined him upon her death in 1997; sold together with copied research and a merit decoration ‘Presented by Grand Council Order of Demolay’.


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Estimate
£70 to £90

Starting price
£60