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24 May 2023

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£440

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant F. H. Knowles, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (331650 Sjt: F. H. Knowles. 1/D.A.C. Can: F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (331650 Sjt. F. H. Knowles. C.F.A.) edge bruise to BWM and light contact marks, otherwise very fine and better (3) £200-£240

M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

Fred Hayes Knowles was born in Alford, Aberdeen, on 11 July 1888 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Vancouver, B.C., on 21 February 1916. He served with the 4th Divisional Ammunition Column, Canadian Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front, and was awarded the Military Medal. He was demobilised in Toronto on 14 May 1919.