Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant A. Livingstone, Canadian Field Artillery, who was commissioned in the Field and wounded at Cambrai in October 1918

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Lieutenant A. Livingstone, 1918’; British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lieut. A. Livingstone), good very fine (3) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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M.C. London Gazette 4 October 1919:

‘For conspicuous gallantry while under heavy shell fire on the night of 27-28 September 1918, near Bourlon. He was in charge of an ammunition column delivering ammunition to the Battery. Under heavy enemy shelling, he succeeded in overcoming all obstacles, and delivered his ammunition, which was urgently required for the next morning barrage.’

Andrew Livingstone, who was born in Paisley, Scotland, in September 1888, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in September 1915 and was to the Canadian Field Artillery.

Embarked for France in July 1916, he was commissioned in the Field that November, while serving on the Somme, and went on to witness further action at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele in the following year, gaining a mention in despatches (London Gazette 28 December 1917 refers).

Having then participated in the fighting at Amiens and Arras in September 1918, including the Canal du Nord operations, he won his M.C. in the same month for the above cited deeds at Bourlon Wood. A little over a week later, however, on 7 October, his active service career was curtailed by wounds received in action at Cambrai.

Livingstone volunteered for further service in September 1940, and appears to have served in the acting rank of Major in the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, Cape Breton Highlanders, until June 1944; sold with copied research.