3rd Battalion WW1 Memorial Plaque & Pair to Semmens
Pair: Private W. Semmens, 3rd (Central Ontario Regiment) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, and Canadian Machine Gun Brigade, who died on the Western Front on 30 September 1918.
British War and Victory Medals (2378467 Pte. W. Semmens. C.M.G. Bde.); Memorial Plaque (William Semmens) tiny edge nick to BWM, otherwise Good very fine.
William Semmens, a miner from Michigan, U.S.A., was born in St. Just, Cornwall, on 1 February 1892. He attested on 28 November 1917, at Winnipeg, Manitoba, into the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps Brigade, before transferring into the 3rd (Central Ontario Regiment) Battalion, Canadian Infantry. He was killed on 30 September 1918 in the vicinity of St Olle by machine gun bullets. He is buried in Drummond Cemetery, Raillencourt, France.
