Vimy Ridge 9th April Casualty Memorial Cross, G.V.R. to 38th Battalion
775155 Pte. H. T. Porter
Very fine
Harry Thomas Porter, Private, 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, was killed in action at Vimy Ridge on 9 April 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France.
He was instantly killed by machine gun fire attacking south of Givenchy.
Sold with a copy photograph of the recipient in uniform, (several pictures are also on ancestry). Harry was born 8th Aug. 1896 at Toronto and was a Traveller by occupation and a pre-war member of the 36th Regiment of Militia. He attested on 3rd jan. 1916 at Toronto. He served in the 109th and 126th Battalions prior to the 38th Battalion.
