Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Sergeant H. Riley, 19th Battalion, Canadian Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (799024 Sjt. H. Riley. 19/Bn: 1/C. Ont: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (799024 Sjt. H. Riley. 19-Can. Inf.) good very fine (2) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 12 July 1919.

Horace Riley was born in Birmingham on 25 April 1894 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Toronto on 11 January 1916. He served with the 19th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was promoted Sergeant on 22 June 1918.