A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918

A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant L. L. Lawler, Canadian Field Artillery, who was decorated for his gallantry at Mons the day before the Armistice

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. L. Lawler), very fine and better (3)
£600-700

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 12 October 1919:

‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 10 November 1918, before Mons. He acted as Forward Observation Officer for his battery, which was in close support of the infantry, and covered the machine-gun swept outpost area many times in gaining information, which enabled his battery to engage and silence the enemy field and machine-guns.’

Lawrence Lansdowne Lawler, who was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba in October 1885, and an ex-Lieutenant of the 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in June 1916.

Embarked for France in February 1918, he served in 3rd Canadian Divisional Trench Mortar Battery and 40th Battery, 10th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, and won the M.C. for the above cited deeds at Mons the day before the Armistice. Lawler was discharged back in Ottawa in September 1919; sold with copied service record.