Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Salonika operations D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel W. B. Hendry, Canadian Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. W. B. Hendry, Can. A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col. W. B. Hendry); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration, G.V.R., silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1921, the reverse of the suspension crown officially inscribed, ‘Lt. Col. & Bt. Col. W. B. Hendry, D.S.O., 4th G.H., C.A.M.C.’, generally very fine or better (7) £1200-1400

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.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

William Belfry Hendry, who was born in Toronto in October 1874, was a pre-war Medical Officer in the Canadian Militia, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in March 1915.

Embarked for Salonika as a member of No. 4 Canadian General Hospital in late 1915, he remained actively employed in that theatre of war until returning to the U.K. in September 1917, in which period he was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel and C.O., awarded the D.S.O., and twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazettes 6 October 1916 and 21 July 1917 refer).

Advanced to the temporary rank of Colonel in the U.K. in December 1917, Hendry was discharged back in Ottawa in December 1919; sold with copied service record and confirmation of the recipient’s entitlement to the Jubilee 1935 and Coronation 1937 Medals.