Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War ‘posthumous’ M.C. group of three awarded to Captain M. A. McKechnie, 6th Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with Canadian memorial cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Captain M. A. McKechnie, M.C.’; tribute medal in silver, circular, 32mm, obverse inscribed ‘In grateful memory of Capt. M. McKechnie, M.C., killed in action 8 Aug. 1918’, reverse inscribed ‘Presented by The Preparedness League, Walkerton’, with double loop suspension, purple ribbon and silver top bar brooch, inscribed ‘Greater love hath no man than this’, generally extremely fine (5) £300-400

M.C. London Gazette 21 December 1918 ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He worked with untiring perseverance in evacuating the wounded from the field of action, under heavy fire, until he was seriously wounded himself. It was largely due to his efforts and self-sacrifice that the casualties were so successfully and rapidly evacuated from the area.’

Captain Malcolm Archibald McKechnie died of wounds France and Flanders 8 August 1918. He is buried at Vignacourt British Cemetery, France. Sold with seven pages of copied service papers.