Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Staff Sergeant C. R. Halford, Canadian Divisional Employment Company

British War and Victory Medals (447460 A.S. Sjt. C. R. Halford. Can. Div. Emp. Coy) good very fine, scarce to unit (2) £60-£80

Charles Roberts Halford was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 28 November 1891 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Calgary, Alberta, on 19 August 1915. He served with the 5th Divisional Employment Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 August 1918, and was discharged suffering from Myopia in 1919.

Sold with copied service papers.