A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War M.M. awarded to Sergeant A. Leslie, 10th (Canadians) Battalion, Canadian Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (624853 Sjt. A. Leslie, 10/Alberta R.), slight contact marks, very fine £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 July 1919.

George Alfred Leslie was born in Domville, Ontario, on 11 December 1890. Living at Camrose, Alberta, and a Cheese Maker by occupation, he attested locally for the 151st (Central Alberta) Battalion in February 1916. Arriving in England that October, he was posted to the 9th Battalion and thence to the ‘10th Canadians’ in the Field in August 1918. Awarded the M.M., he was discharged at Kingston, Ontario, in April 1919; sold with copied service papers.