MEDAL, MILITARY

Description: "1914-1918" WITH MOUNTED MAN HOLDING SWORD OBVERSE. REVERSE: "GEORGIUS VBRITT. OMN: REX ET IND: IMP." WITH BUST OF MAN (GEORGE V). BLUE, WHITE, MOIRE ORANGE, BLK RIBBON. "HON CAPT DG SHOULDICE" ENGRAVED ON EDGE.

History: BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1919. AWARDED TO CANADIANS WHO LEFT CANADA ON WAR SERVICE. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF MILITARY OBJECTS. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ABOUT CAPTAIN DAVID GEORGE SHOULDICE, THE ORIGINAL RECEIPIENT OF THIS MEDAL, WAS FOUND IN SHOULDICE'S DECLARATION PAPER AND A LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLE WRITTEN UPON HIS DEATH IN 1943. SHOULDICE WAS BORN IN MARIPOSA TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO, IN 1871, AND SERVED WITH THE 31ST BATTALION IN OWEN SOUND BEFORE COMING WEST IN 1904 TO WORK AS A STOCK SALESMAN IN CALGARY. SHOULDICE SERVED WITH THE 137TH BATTALION DURING WWI WITH THE RANK OF CAPTAIN. AFTER THE WAR SHOULDICE, HIS WIFE LETITIA AND THEIR CHILDREN MOVED TO THE EMPRESS AREA. IN 1933 SHOULDICE RETIRED TO VANCOUVER, SPENDING THE LAST WINTER OF HIS LIFE IN LETHBRIDGE AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, THE DONOR, MRS. W.E. BRYANS. SHOULDICE DIED IN CALGARY ON JANUARY 13, 1943. THE DONOR PASSED AWAY ON JANUARY 2, 1971. FOR HARDCOPIES OF SHOULDICE'S DECLARATION PAPER AND OBITUARIES FOR SHOULDICE AND BRYANS, SEE PERMANENT FILE.