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YMCA Sports Medal
Lance-Corporal Cyril Percy Green won this medal during the First World War. The medal includes the YMCA's mission, "spirit, mind, body." It was awarded at the Canadian Corps fall championships in France in 1917.

Sports Medal
CWM 20050069-006
Tilston Memorial Collection of Canadian Military Medals
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