Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain (Quartermaster) A. M. Arklie, Canadian Army Medical Corps, late 27th Battalion Canadian Infantry and Royal Scots

1914-15 Star (71450 C.Q.M. Sjt., 27-Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. Medal, G.V.R. (Capt. (Qr. Mr.) No. 21Cav. Fld. Amb. C.A.M.C.) good very fine and better (5) £160-200

Andrew Melville Arklie was born in Forfarshire, Scotland in 1891. A Commercial Traveller by occupation, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg in October 1914. Serving with the 27th Battalion Canadian Infantry as a C.Q.M.S., he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 17 September 1915. He later received a commission in the Royal Scots. As a Temporary Captain he relinquished his commission on 12 February 1919 due to ill health caused by wounds (London Gazette 11 February 1919). With copied research.