Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sapper C. V. Emmons, Canadian Engineers
1914-15 Star (5662 Spr: C. V. Emmons. 1/Can: D.S.Coy.); British War and Victory Medals (5662 Spr. C. V. Emmons. C.E.) minor patch of staining to obverse of last, otherwise very fine

Five: Private C. C. Carmody, 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles), later Canadian Army Medical Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force
1914-15 Star (50439 Pte. C. Carmody. 24/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (50439 Pte. C. C. Carmody. C.A.M.C.); Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, without clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, BWM and VM officially re-impressed, traces of lacquer, with verdigris to reverse of Star and obverse of Victory Medal, overall good fine (8) £70-£90

Clarke Vincent Emmons was born at Rosehall, Prince Edward County, Canada, on 3 July 1896. He attested for the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 23 September 1914, witnessing service in France with the 1st and 3rd Divisional Signal Companies, Canadian Engineers, from 20 March 1915. Emmons survived the war and returned home soon after the cessation of hostilities, but his service was marked by stomach complaints associated with the dreadful conditions experienced on the Western Front.

Charles Cecil Carmody was born at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on 3 June 1898. He served in France with the 24th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, from 15 September 1915, and was buried on the Somme in September 1916. Admitted to hospital at Etaples suffering from nervous debility, he was transferred to the Red Cross Hospital at Sherborne, Dorset, and later the Canadian Convalescent Hospital at Epsom, to recuperate. Continuing to suffer from nerves and poor health, Carmody was struck off strength and repatriated home to Canada in November 1917.

Sold with a silver-gilt Hawkesbury Lodge Masonic Medal, engraved to reverse, 'Presented to Wor. Bro. C. P. Carmody, W.M. 1947-48, by Hawkesbury Lodge, No. 450. A. F. & A. M.', a United States of America Non Resident Alien's Border Crossing Identification Card to Charles Paton Carmody, and extensive copied research.

Additionally sold together with a United States of America European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, bronze, mounted in a glazed display frame together with the cap badge, shoulder title, nurses lapel badge, portrait photograph, and identity tag named to ‘Hortense F Rowland’.