Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Sergeant W. E. Ashworth, Royal North West Mounted Police and Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force

British War and Victory Medals (2772616 Cpl., C.S.E.F.); Jubilee 1935; Royal Canadian Mounted Police L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (W. F. Ashworth) mounted court style for wear, good very fine (4) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

View
Collection

William Earnshaw Ashworth was born on 7 July 1880 in New Brunswick Street, Wakefield, Yorkshire. As a young man he emigrated to Canada, and was employed as a locomotive fireman before joining the North West Mounted Police at Regina on 30 May 1904. He served at Whitehorse before taking his discharge on 29 May 1909. On 1 September 1914 he re-joined the Force and for th next four years was stationed at Mirror Landing, Grand Prairie, Athabasca, Regina, and Emerson. On 11 September 1918 he volunteered for service with the R.N.W.M.P. Cavalry Draft, C.E.F. He sailed in the Empress of Japan from Vancouver on 11 October 1918, arriving with the Advance Party of the R.N.W.M.P. in Siberia on 26 October 1918. There, he had a spell in No. 11 Stationary Hospital at Vladivostock, 31 Janaury-27 March 1919, before sailing back on the Monteagle on 5 June 1919. He served with that unit until 9 July 1919 when it was demobilized. Ashworth was promoted Corporal in December 1916 and Sergeant in November 1920. After the war, he remained in the service, his last 17 years being employed at the Headquarters in Ottawa in the Central Registry, and as a reader in the C.I.B. He was awarded the R.C.M.P. Long Service Medal (Canada Gazette 12 January 1935) and the Jubilee Medal (Canada Gazette 4 May 1935). After his retirement in 1937, he returned to England. He died at 34 Princethorpe Road, Ipswich on 8 November 1948. Sold with coped research.