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Here's a photo showing both the 3 and the 5. I suspect that the second number is a 3.
Another possible clue--we live in Minnesota--so if my father-in-law picked this medal up at an estate sale or from a local, it may be more likely that it belonged to a Canadian than to someone British.

4361 does fit what we see well.

There are certainly men with this number on the rolls, around 70.

forengr2 wrote: Another possible clue--we live in Minnesota--so if my father-in-law picked this medal up at an estate sale or from a local, it may be more likely that it belonged to a Canadian than to someone British.

If the original owner was Canadian, he can only have been in the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, as that's definitely REGT on your medal.

I know of at least two British soldiers who emigrated to Canada after the war, and there's a war memorial plaque, originally in a London town hall, which is now in a sports bar in Omaha NE, so there's no reason why you shouldn't have a medal for a British Army regiment.

Is this LINC - Lincolnshire Regiment?
Or LANC - L N LANC - Loyal North Lancashire Regiment?



* The Lincolnshire Regiment had a casualty in the war with the number 4365, Lance Sergeant W. Farmer. 2nd Battalion.

Here are photos of the whole side of the medal, for reference.

It sure looks like it might say "Linc."

How do you find out who was in a regiment?