Saving a Piece of Canadian Military History

I came across this article this weekend but didn't have the time to blog about it. My hats off to St. George, Ontario resident Dave Thomson for this worthwhile and noble endeavour.

Man wants to retrieve N.S. medals on auction
By JOHN GILLIS Staff Reporter

Medals awarded to a member of Nova Scotia’s famous Black Battalion and a Halifax soldier killed in the Second World War are up for auction on EBay, and an Ontario man wants to make sure they end up in an appropriate place.

A 1914-19 Victory Medal awarded to Sapper Percy Fenton of the No. 2 Construction Battalion — the only all-black battalion in the First World War — was posted for auction Saturday. The lone bid for his medal as of Saturday afternoon was for $29.03 Cdn.

Pte. John Warren Ross Grant of the Canadian Army Dental Corps was killed on active service at age 25. His Memorial Cross and three service medals had attracted one bid of $174.54 as of Saturday.

Dave Thomson of St. George, Ont., has successfully bought and returned more than 20 such medals to families, communities and legion branches over the past year.

He found the Nova Scotia medals on EBay and would like to see them go somewhere they would be honoured.