3201. An oustanding group to Lt.Col. G.R. Geary, O.B.E., M.C. 35th Bn, 58th Bn and Staff and Royal Grenadiers. Former MAYOR OF TORONTO and graduate of UPPER CANADA COLLEGE
M.B.E. 1st type, military; Military Cross (Geo V); British War & Victory medals (with M.I.D.) "Major G.R. Geary";1935 Jubilee medal; 1937 Coronation medal; 1953 Coronation medal; French Legion of Honour; French Croix de Guerre 1914-18 with palm; Corps of Commissionaires LS medal silver "G.R. Geary"; With a set of miniature medals of the above. Also with a box containing two rings, Canadian National Exhibition (C.N.E.) ribbns for 1912, 1920, 1929, 1925, 1932. Director 1910. two Canadian Red Cross Society medals for 1915.
Coronation year Camp 1911 medal, 1912 Curling medal, Knights of St. John 1912 Convention medal, American Federation of Labor 1909 convention medal, C.N.E. Member medal in sterling named to "Mayor R.G. Geary" , Cadbury medal to commemorate the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Canada 1939. With an extensive binder of research. George Reginald Geary was born in Strathroy Ontario August 12th, 1873. He died in Toronto April 30th, 1954. He was a lawyer who was called to the bar in 1896 and educated at Upper Canada College & University of Toronto. He worked at the firm of Macdonnell, MacMaster and Geary. He served in WWI and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Legion of Honour. He was the Commander of the Royal Grenadier Regiment 1926-26, Member of the Orange Order, Sons of England. He was the Mayor of Toronto from 1910-1912.
Military service includes the following: Lieut, 2nd Regt QOR in 1914; Captain 35th Bn CEF, 1915; Embarked Canada 15 October, 1915; Temp Major till 1916; Attached to the 58th Bn for Instruction 1916; Attached to the 7th Inf Bde and 9th Inf Bde, Wounded Gas 16 August, 1918. Attached to the Canadian Corps Intelligence. Lieut Col. Royal Grenadiers 1 April, 1924. Military Cross London Gazette 10/6/20. "The War Book of Upper Canada College Toronto" by A.H. Young provides the following details about George Reginald Geary: Counsel to the Corporation of the City of Toronto; Alexander Apts, Toronto B.E April 86, From Sarnia H.S.; aged 12-1; L. June 89; son of the late R.J. Geary, Sarnia K.C. 08; Mayor 10-12. Enlisted January 7, 1915; 35th Bn C.E.F. Lt, Asst. Adjt; Adjt.; Staff Capt. 35th Bn; O.S. October 15, 1915; France, November 15, 1916; 58th Can Inf; Major 1917, Vimy Ridge April 1917; Lens, Avion, Hill 70 etc; Passchendaele, October and November 1917; Scarpe, March 1918; Amiens August 1918, Cambrai September 1918. Mt. Huoy October, 1918. 6th C.I. Bgde, Staff Capt. November 14, 1918, Mons, November and December 1918; ret’d from O.S., March 23, 1919, discharged March 24, 1919, O.B.E. June 1919. Extensive research and photos and more. Medals court mounted
Price: EF $7750.00 Canadian
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