Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Sergeant N. R. Crowe, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, who was wounded by gas poisoning in September 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (839155 Sjt. N. R. Crowe, 4/Can. M.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (839155 Sjt. N. R. Crowe, 4-C.M.R.), together with an erased Victory Medal 1914-19, nearly extremely fine (3) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1919.

Nelson Ross Crowe was born in Markdale, Ontario, on 6 August 1898. A Butcher by occupation, he enlisted into the 147th (Greys) Battalion at Camp Bordon, Ontario, in October 1916, and arrived in England in the following month. Embarked for France in April 1917, he was taken on to the strength of the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, in which capacity he suffered gas poisoning on 6 September 1917, and later awarded the M.M. Tried and convicted in August 1918 for creating a disturbance in billet, resisting arrest, and making a false statement, he nevertheless retained his Sergeant’s stripes. Crowe was discharged at Toronto in May 1919 and died in 1961; sold with copied service papers.