2001.39.2
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Images, Electronic
- Description
- - silver; cross surrounded by laurel wreath; crown at top of cross, maple leaf on three remaining arms; "RG" in centre; purple ribbon (L-20cm, W-1.7cm)
- engraved on back: "2381713/ Pte. D.C. GRAHAM"
- David Clayton Graham was born and raised in Thamesville, but like hundreds of other Kent Couty residents, he and his family moved to new lands in the west around 1910. They homesteaded near Pratt, Manitoba where David worked on his father's farm. In 1917, the Canadian Government passed the Compulsory Military Service Act. Initially, the legislation exempted famrers' sons but this was repealed the following year. David was drafted in 1918. He reported for service on April 8, joining the 1st Depot Battalion, Manitoba Regiment in Winnipeg. Within a few days of his arrival in the city, Graham contracted influenza that in the absence of antibiotics quilckly developed into pneumonia. He was admitted to St. Boniface Hospital on the 15th of April and six days later he died.
- 1918
- 0.4cm H / 3.3cm L
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 008 Box 11 - Date of Publication
- 1918
- Collection
- Chatham Kent Museum
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 008 Box 11 - Terms of Use
- Copies are provided for research and private study only. Permission to use images in any other way including, but not limited to, publication, exhibition, film, video or TV broadcast, or on any CD or website, must be obtained in writing from an authorized representative of the Chatham-Kent Museum prior to use. This applies to low-resolution copies downloaded from this site at no cost and to high resolution copies.
- Contact
- Chatham-Kent MuseumEmail:ckcccmuseum@chatham-kent.ca
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