Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private W. Berthin, 21st (Eastern Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was twice wounded

Military Medal, G.V.R. (445139 Pte. W. Berthin, 21/E.O.R.), attempted erasure to naming which is now faint and obscured, nearly very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 3 July 1919.

William Berthin was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, on 15 May 1897. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Sussex, New Brunswick in June 1915. Originally posted to the 55th Battalion, he arrived in England in November 1915 and went out to France with the 21st Battalion in April 1916.

Admitted to No. 5 Canadian Field Ambulance with a gunshot wound to the fingers on 28 September 1916, he returned to active duty in the following month, but was again wounded during November 1917, receiving a contusion to the ankle, and was admitted to No. 16 (Philadelphia, U.S.A.) General Hospital at Le Treport. Berthin returned to Canada in May 1919; sold with copied service papers.