Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Memorial Cross , G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘414395 Pte. W. Anderson’, complete with straight-bar suspension, very fine

Canadian Memorial Cross , G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘475536 L.-Cpl. W. E. Webb’, with unofficial straight-bar suspension inscribed, ‘A.G.W.’, very fine (2) £100-150

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

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William Oscar Anderson enlisted in the 40th(Nova Scotia) Battalion at Halifax, N.S., in July 1915 and, serving with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, was gassed on 10 November 1917 - resulting in pneumonia and other complications. Listed as a deserter in May 1919, he was discharged that September and died of lung disease at Halifax, N.S., in April 1944; sold with copied service papers.

William Ernest Webb enlisted in the 4th Overseas Universities Company, C.E.F., at Montreal in November 1915, and later served with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Wounded by gas poisoning during the battle of Passchendaele on 30 October 1917 - ‘causing burns under left arm, on side of chest and behind left knee and respiratory problems’ - he was demobilised at Montreal in February 1919 and died in December 1948; sold with copied service papers.