Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Somme operations M.M. awarded to Private D. White, Canadian Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (154827 Pte. D. White, 1/D.S. Coy. Can. E.), edge bruising, scratch to obverse, very fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 6 January 1917. The original recommendation states:

‘At Courcelette on 13 October 1916, between the hours of 10 and 11 a.m. and 3 and 5 p.m., this man displayed conspicuous courage and coolness by repairing cable under heavy shell fire and in full view of the enemy. Again on the morning of 14 October, Sapper White again went out under the same conditions and restored communications.’

David White was born in Harwood, Ontario, on 11 January 1893. Employed as a Telephone Electrician, he attested for overseas service at Macleod in February 1915. A member of the 1st Pioneer Battalion on arrival in England in November 1915, he went out to France in March 1916, where he transferred to the 1st Divisional Signal Company that September 1916, and won his M.M. for the above cited deeds on the Somme. He was discharged at Toronto in May 1919; sold with copied service papers.