Lot 4

Description

Canada, Group of Five to Killed in Service: 1939-45 Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal 1939-45 with Maple Leaf clasp; War Medal 1939-45; Canadian Memorial Cross, the last medal stamped on the reverse Sterling BM Co. The first four medals unnamed, Sgt. W.R.Donaldson. R-78064 on last medal. The named medal engraved. Swing mounted, some toning, otherwise good very fine.

William Robert Donaldson, stock keeper and clerk, born 11Apr1919, born at Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Enl.08Oct1940 at Toronto, Ontario as AC; to LAC 06Feb1941, T/Sgt 23Jun1941, T/Flt Sgt 23Dec1941; Air Gunner's badge 23Jun1941; various postings; Bomber Command report states that Sgt Donaldson with 12 Operational Training Unit was killed 08Feb1942 in a flying accident when a Wellington aircraft crashed at high speed near Wardington and was completely wrecked. His death was instantaneous and body mutilated; Buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England..^^With copy of Service File.