Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Battery Quartermaster Sergeant W. Benson, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (128 Sjt: W. Benson. Can: F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (128 A.B.Q.M. Sjt. W. Benson. C.F.A.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘C106121’, light contact marks, good very fine (4) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

William Benson was born in Lambeth, London, on 25 May 1890 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Kingston, Ontario, on 10 August 1915. He served with the 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery during the Great War on the Western Front, and was awarded the Military Medal.