Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Major W. J. Hoar Durham Regt.’, silver and silver-gilt, with integral top riband bar, good very fine £200-240

W. J. Hoar, of Kingston, Ontario, served in ‘A’ Company, 136th (Durham) Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War.