Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sick Berth Attendant W. S. MacDonald, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was discharged as a result of ill-health in November 1943

Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, in their card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s Canadian Memorial Cross, E.II.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘MacDonald, W., V. 39731, S.B.A.’, with bar suspension, good very fine (3) £80-100

William Stanley MacDonald enlisted in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in May 1942, as a Sick Berth Attendant Probationer. His training completed, he joined the corvette H.M.C.S. Chicoutimi in April 1943, and served on the Atlantic run until invalided ashore that September and discharged as medically unfit in the following month. His death in Victoria, B.C., in July 2002, was partly attributable to his wartime service and he was accordingly issued with an E.II.R. Memorial Cross; sold with copied service record.