Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sapper N. H. Coutts, Canadian Engineers, who died of wounds at Ypres in April 1915

1914-15 Star (5684 Spr. N. H. Coutts, 1/Can. D.S. Coy.); British War and Victory Medals (5684 Spr. N. H. Coutts, C.E.), together with related Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (5648 Spr. N. H. Coutts), with forwarding card, and a large colour-tinted portrait photograph in uniform, the whole contained within a gilt display frame, generally extremely fine (4) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman.

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Norman Hunter Coutts was born in Aberdeenshire in October 1889 and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force direct from the Militia in September 1914. Subsequently embarked for France in the 1st Canadian Division’s Signalling Company, he died of wounds at Ypres on 26 April 1915. He is buried in the Duhallow (Advanced Dressing Station) Cemetery; sold with copied attestation papers.