Lot 983
TWO FAMILY FIRST WORLD WAR PAIRS TO A CANADIAN NURSE AND INFANTRYMAN.
A Great War pair comprising 1914-15 and War medal named to Pte S.A. Guilbride 16 Can Inf, (the name on the War Medal as Guilbridge) with a silver identity bracelet and a similar pair named N.Sister P.Guilbride Can A.M.C. Private Samuel Arthur Guilbridge who was born in Ireland was initially reported as a casualty and on the 11th July 1915 this is changed to Prisoner of War served with the Manitoba Regiment of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he was held as a prisoner of War in Germany being released back to England on the 19th of December 1918. Mrs Phyllis Guillbride, is recorded as Samuel's next of kin, perhaps his sister, she embarked on the hospital ship Dunluce Castle from Malta on the 8th of November 1916. As a Sister in the Canadian Army Medical Corps she travelled first class.
