He was trained at London and Petawawa and departed for overseas service in December 1940 as a Corporal
with its full length period original ribbon (previously repaired)
the obverse bearing a machine-embroidered silver aluminum flat wire SS-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika
He served as a gunner with the 72nd Overseas Field Battery (72nd Queen's Battery)
a Gebirgsjäger Edelweiss badge
Spain, Kingdom. An Order of Isabella the Catholic, Commander, by Ceualvo GTRexclude He was trained at London(Orden de Isabel la Catlica). Instituted 24. 3. 1815. (1938 1975 issue). Type IV. A ball tipped enameled red four armed cross in silver, featuring multiple delicate rays in each quadrant, suspended by a green enameled laurel wreath with long vertical loop, the obverse center displaying an enameled hand painted Orders insignia, surrounded by the inscriptionA La Lealtad Acrisolada (To Pure Loyalty) in capital lettering on an enameled white border, the