Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant F. M. Tordiffe, 29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, late Canadian Army Service Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (36028 Pte. F. M. Tordiffe, Can. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. M. Tordiffe), contact marks, otherwise generally very fine (4) £600-700

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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M.C. London Gazette 14 November 1916:

‘For conspicuous gallantry in action. He led a party in the attack 250 yards beyond the captured trench to establish an outpost. He displayed great courage and initiative throughout, and set a splendid example to his men.’

Francis Michael Tordiffe, who was born in Dartford, Kent, in October 1878, enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in September 1914.

Embarked for France in March 1915, where he joined the Canadian Army Service Corps, he served in the 1st Canadian Divisional Supply Column, and, in April 1916, having been briefly attached to the Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, was commissioned in the acting rank of Lieutenant.

Returning to active duty in France in July 1916 with an appointment in the 29th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, he shortly thereafter won his M.C. for the above cited deeds. Having then been hospitalised with gastritis in early 1917, he remained employed in the U.K, until the War’s end, when he ‘retired to the British Isles’.

Sold with copied service record.