Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Corporal A. Marks, Veteran Guards of Canada, late Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (41094 Dvr. A. Marks, Can. F.A.); 1914-15 Star (41094 Dvr. A. Marks, Can. Fd. Art.); British War and Victory Medals (41094 Dvr. A. Marks, C.F.A.); Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, no clasp; War Medal 1939-45, in silver, together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘L. 32236 Cpl. A. Marks’, brightly cleaned and lacquered, nearly very fine and better (7) £300-350

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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As also revealed by accompanying research, his death in March 1948 was deemed to have been caused by his earlier military service and, accordingly, his widow was sent the Canadian Memorial Cross; sold with a prize medal in silver and gold, inscribed, ‘J.G.D.’ and ‘F. E. Davies’, together with copied service records.M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

Arthur Marks, who was born in Liverpool, England, in October 1894, enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Quebec in September 1914.

Embarked for France as a Driver in 5th Battery, 2nd Brigade, C.F.A., in February 1915, he remained actively engaged there until the War’s end, was awarded the M.M., and was discharged back in Canada in April 1919.

Between the Wars he served as a cook with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Regina, but on the renewal of hostilities he returned to uniform, serving in the Veteran Guards of Canada from July 1940 until April 1945, and gaining the Canadian Voluntary Service Medal and War Medal.