Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant G. C. Anderson, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, attached Canadian Machine Gun Company
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. C. Anderson.); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; together with the recipient’s two silver identity bracelets, the first inscribed ‘G. C. Anderson R.C.A.M.C.’; the second inscribed ‘Lieu. G. C. Anderson, 19th. Canadain Machine Gun Co. (Pres.)’, the reverse inscribed with the recipient’s next-of-kin ‘Miss P. C. McKay. 93 Montrose St. Winnipeg.’, very fine

Pair: Major H. F. Baker, Canadian Expeditionary Force
British War and Victory Medals (Major H. F. Baker.) good very fine (6) £80-£120

Henry Frederick Baker was born in Clifton, Bristol, on 29 August 1870, and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Hamilton, Ontario, on 1 May 1915, having previously served in the Bechuanaland Mounted Rifles. He served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 36th Battalion, and also saw service with the 18th Battalion, the 3rd Reserve battalion, the 1st Central Ontario Regimental Depot, and the Chinese Labour Battalion, and his name was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War ‘for valuable services rendered in connection with the War’ on 24 February 1917. He was seconded for duty with the War Office on 14 September 1917, and was demobilised on 15 July 1919.

Sold with copied attestation and service papers.