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Canada. An Efficiency Medal, to Sergeant Thomas Melville Whorton, Victoria Rifles of Canada

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Canada. An Efficiency Medal, to Sergeant Thomas Melville Whorton, Victoria Rifles of Canada

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Canada. An Efficiency Medal, to Sergeant Thomas Melville Whorton, Victoria Rifles of Canada

George V with Canada scroll (SGT. T.M. WHORTON VIC. RIF. OF C.). Naming is officially impressed. Contact marks and surface wear, replacement ribbon, very fine.

Footnote: Thomas Melville Wharton was born in Canada and enlisted as a Private with the Victoria Rifles of Canada on May 5, 1924, at the age of 23. He stated that he was Single, that his religion was Church of England, that his trade was that of Clerk and was sworn in on May 22nd, with G.R. Robertson as his witness. Whorton was promoted to the Rank of Corporal on May 22, 1929, then to the rank of Acting Sergeant on November 14, 1932 and was transferred to Headquarters Company on December 27th. Sergeant Thomas Melville Whorton was serving with 555 Regiment, A Company, Victoria Rifles of Canada when he was awarded the Efficiency Medal on April 23, 1936 (Information from the McCord Museum). He re-attested on April 27, 1936. Whorton died on October 22, 1974, at the age of 73 and is buried in Cimetière Mont-Royal, in Outremont, Montreal Region, Quebec.