Canadian Medal Help

[Fritziii]

Gents, picked up a WW1 British War medal today, unfortunately someone rubbed the name off the medal BUT the medal number is still there and it's from a unit abbreviated P.P.C.L.I., the number is 213437, is there anyone or anywhere I can go to look this number up?

Fritz

[damien C.]

Gents, picked up a WW1 British War medal today, unfortunately someone rubbed the name off the medal BUT the medal number is still there and it's from a unit abbreviated P.P.C.L.I., the number is 213437, is there anyone or anywhere I can go to look this number up?

Fritz

PPCLI is Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

Search here http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discove...es/search.aspx

[Fritziii]

Fantastic! Thanks. It is Clyde John Mayville, enlisted 31 December 1915

Fritz

[peter monahan]

Actually, the serials 213001-216000 were assigned to the 99th (Essex) Battalion, a unit raised in the Windsor, Ontario area in late 1915-early 1916 and page 2 of Mayville's attestation paper mentions the '99th Vattalion'. He was a farmer, 23 years old, when he enlisted in Amherstburg, near Windsor on the last day of December, 1915.

[Fritziii]

Thanks Peter

Fritz

[peter monahan]

Sorry, I should have added this:

"The 99th Battalion (Essex), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force. The 99th Battalion was authorized on 22 December 1915 and embarked for Great Britain on 31 May 1916, where, on 6 July 1916, its personnel were absorbed by the 35th Reserve Battalion, CEF to provide reinforcements to the Canadian Corps in the field. The battalion disbanded on 1 September 1917." [Wiki]

At least half the CEF troops went to England in units which were then disbanded. I'm writing about 70 men from my area who died in 1914-19 ans only about a dozen were with their original units from enlistment to KIA. That's how your man would have gottwen to the PPCLI - part of a reinforcement draft from the 35th Reserve Bttn.

[peter monahan]

Also, a quick check with the CWGC doesn't show any C J Mayville's s having died, so he probably survivied the war. PM me if you'd like me to try and track him here - Ancestry is good sometimes and some, not all, of the vets have the date and circumstance of their deaths recorded at the Archives.

Peter