Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.C.M. group of three awarded to Corporal F. J. Wilson, 28th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who, having been wounded in May 1917, was decorated for house clearance operations in October 1918

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (105602 Cpl. F. J. Wilson, 28/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (105602 Cpl. F. J. Wilson, 28-Can. Inf.), good very fine and better (3) £800-1000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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D.C.M. London Gazette 12 March 1919:

‘For most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near Iwuy on 11 October 1918. On many occasions he went alone into cellars and houses known to be held by the enemy, and with others succeeded in capturing some machine-guns. Later in the day he led a small party against a house strongly held by the enemy, and either killed or captured the entire garrison. He set a magnificent example.’

Frederick James Wilson, who was born at Summerberry, Saskatchewan, in August 1895, enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Regina in December 1915.

Embarked for France in March 1917, where he joined the 28th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, he was posted missing on 8 May, but was subsequently recovered from the battlefield with a wound in his right hip, and evacuated to the U.K. Returning to his unit in the Field at the end of the year, he went on to win his D.C.M. for the above cited deeds at Iwuy in October 1918 and, having fallen victim to the influenza epidemic, was discharged back in Canada in December 1919 ; sold with copied service record.