Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. Campbell, Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (Machine Gun Regiment)

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal 1939-45, silver issue; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver issue; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue Canada (Cpl. J. Campbell, C.H. of O. (M.G.)); Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R., with Bar (Q.M.S. (W.O. 2) J. Campbell), contact marks, cleaned and lacquered, nearly very fine and better (7) £120-150

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

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John Campbell, who was born in Montreal in March 1915, joined the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa in May 1931 and was still serving in that capacity at the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, when he was drafted to the Canadian Active Service Force. Subsequently embarked for the U.K., he chiefly served as a Regimental and Physical Training Instructor but he went out to France in August 1944, and no doubt shared in some of his regiment’s battle honours. Having then been invalided home with a broken hip, he remained in the Canadian Army right up until his death in 1966. His service record - copies included - notes his Efficiency Medal was awarded in December 1942.