Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant L. H. Simpson, 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry, wounded in action in France, 26 June 1917

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. H. Simpson.) very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. W. P. Mackasey.) very fine (3) £80-£100

Leslie Howard Simpson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in May 1896. He initially served in the ranks for the 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry prior to being commission in that unit in February 1917. Simpson suffered a fractured leg, 7 April 1916m and gunshot wounds to the shoulders, legs and buttocks on the Western Front, 26 June 1917. Lieutenant Simpson was invalided to Canada in October 1917.

William Patrick Mackasey was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada in October 1881. He was a Surgeon by profession, and was commissioned Captain, No. 6 Training Depot, Canadian Army Medical Corps for serving during the Great War. Mackasey was attached for service with the Royal Army Medical Corps on a hosptial ship in the Dardanelles in 1915.