Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private H. Devereux, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, late 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia Regiment), who was wounded on the Somme in September 1916

Military Medal, G.V.R. (442046 Pte. H. Devereux, 2/Coy. Can. M.G.C.); British War and Victory Medals (442046 Pte. H. Devereux, 7-Can. Inf.), minor edge bruising, good very fine (3) £250-300

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.M. London Gazette 19 November 1917.

Richard Devereux, who was born in Liverpool, England, in November 1878, enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Vernon, British Columbia, in July 1915.

Embarked for France in January 1916, where he joined the 7th Battalion (1st British Columbia Regiment), he was wounded in the right shoulder on the Somme that September, and evacuated to the U.K.

Having then returned to active duty in France with an appointment in the 2nd Canadian Machine Gun Corps in August 1917, he was awarded the M.M. and ended the War as a member of a Labour Battalion. Devereux was discharged back in Vancouver in March 1919; sold with copied service record.