Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Acting-Sergeant W. S. Tedford, Canadian Machine Gun Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (841928 Pte. W. S. Tedford, Can. M.G.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (841928 A. Sjt. W. S. Tedford, C.M.G. Bde.); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘841928 A.-Sgt. W. S. Tedford’, slight contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £300-350

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 3 November 1918.

Walter Samuel Tedford was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, on 1 February 1879. A Carpenter by occupation and a former member of the Medical Corps in Montreal, he enlisted into the 148th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, in March 1916. Arriving in England in October 1916, he was posted to the 18th Company, Canadian Machine Gun Corps in February 1917, and entered France in April 1918, where he was transferred to the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade that June. Awarded the M.M. - possibly for the Battle of Amiens in August 1918 - he was discharged at Montreal in April 1919. Tedford died in November 1939 of a debility related to his war service; sold with copied service papers.