A Canada Service & Colonial Auxiliary Pair To The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards Newly Listed Footnote: The 239th Canadian Infantry

Footnote: The 239th Canadian Infantry Battalion was converted and redesignated the 3rd Canadian Battalion Railway Troops in February 1917

War and Victory Medal (138486 PTE

1916 at the State Ministry

and is approximately 27mm (one inch) wide

His cause of death was announced as a paralysis-attack

A Canada Service & Colonial Auxiliary Pair To The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards Newly Listed Footnote: The 239th Canadian InfantryCanada General Service Medal 1866 70, one clasp Fenian Raid 1870, (Gr. J. J. McGovern, Ottawa G. A.). Naming is impressed; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, (SERGEANT. MAJOR J. J. McGOVERN, P. L. D. G.). Naming is impressed, extremely fine. Footnote: John James McGovern served at Cornwall during the Fenian Raids of 1870, after which he became a Private in the Governor Generals Foot Guard. In October 1877 he was part of the Guard of Honour