A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

Pair: Corporal L. Blackstock, M.M., 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was three times wounded

British War and Victory Medals (77899 Cpl. L. Blackstock, 16-Can. Inf.), good very fine and better (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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Lachlan Blackstock was born in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, on 15 June 1888. A Teamster by occupation, he enlisted into the 30th Battalion at Victoria, B.C., in November 1914, and was embarked France in May 1915 as a member of the 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battalion. Suffering a gunshot wound to his right ear on 9 July 1915, he was attached to the 35th T.H. Battery that August, and to a Trench Mortar Battery in April 1916. And it was in this latter capacity that he was twice more wounded - by a gas shell on 24 February 1918 and by gunshot wounds to left shoulder and arm on 27 September 1918, as a result of which he was invalided to England. Awarded the M.M. (London Gazette 24 January 1919 refers), he was demobilised in January 1919; sold with copied service papers.