Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (158198 Pte. C. A. Wilson) with pin back suspension, mounted from a silver bow riband brooch, polished, nearly very fine £60-£80

Charles Arthur Wilson was born at St. Catherine’s, Ontario, on 23 December 1879 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Toronto on 24 September 1915. He served with the 18th Battalion, Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and suffered a gun shot wound to the head on 16 January 1917. Discharged, medically unfit, on 14 February 1919, he died on 24 July 1941, and was awarded a Canadian Memorial Cross, his death presumably being at least partly attributed to his Great War wounds. His widow returned his British War and Victory Medals to the War Office after his death.