Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major W. H. Hayward, Canadian Army Pay Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Major W. H. Hayward), together with a related Masonic Service Medal, oval, silver, hallmarks for London 1929, the reverse inscribed ‘Bro. Major W. H. Hayward, No. 3527’, in its fitted box of issue, the second with re-impressed naming, good very fine or better (3) £80-100

William Henry Hayward was born in Dover, Kent, in October 1867, but had settled as a farmer in B.C., Canada, by the outbreak of the Great War. Enlisting in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg in November 1915, when he was stated to be a member of the Militia, he was quickly embarked for England, and was commissioned in the 1st Pioneer Battalion in July 1916. His subsequent appointments included employment at Canadian Administrative H.Q., London, and in the Canadian Army Pay Corps, and he was onetime embarked for France. He was discharged in Ottawa in August 1920.