Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1915 ‘Battle of Festubert’ D.C.M. group of seven awarded to Captain H. T. Cameron, Canadian Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (33303 Pte. H. T. Cameron. No. 3. F.A. 1/Can: Div:); 1914-15 Star (33303 Sjt. H. T. Cameron. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Hon. Capt. H. T. Cameron.) ‘Hon’ unofficially re-engraved; Coronation 1937 (Capt. H. T. Cameron) contemporarily impressed naming; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, mounted court-style for display in this order, light contact marks, generally good very fine and better (7) £1,200-£1,600

D.C.M. London Gazette 6 September 1915:
‘For great bravery and devotion to duty on the night of 20-21 May 1915 at Festubert. He was the first to volunteer to assist in collecting the wounded at the orchard captured from the enemy, and which was still under a very heavy fire. The task was one of great difficulty and danger and of the party of eight men who undertook it, four were severely wounded.’

Herbert Thomas Cameron was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 24 May 1884 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Field Ambulance Corps, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 22 September 1914, having previously served for three years and six months in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served with No. 3 Field Ambulance during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 February 1915, and for his gallantry at Festubert in May 1915 was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He was advanced Staff Sergeant on 21 February 1916, and Sergeant Major on 4 August 1916, and was granted an honorary commission in the Canadian Army Medical Corps on 11 October 1917.

Cameron was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937 (confirmed in letter from the Canadian Chancellery), and following the outbreak of the Second World War was appointed Captain in No. 10 District Depot as Canadian Provost Corps, being seconded for duty as Quartermaster of Internment Camp ‘X’ on 16 December 1940. He later transferred to Internment camp ‘R’, again as Quartermaster, and was released from service on 16 August 1941.

Sold with a large quantity of copied research.