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14 February 2024

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14 February 2024

Hammer Price:
£240

Four: Acting Staff Sergeant A. D. Cameron, 42nd (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was Mentioned in Despatches

1914-15 Star (418876 Pte. A. C. Cameron. 42-Can. Inf. Bn.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (418876 A. S. Sjt. A. D. Cameron. 41-Can. Inf.); Jubilee 1935 (A. D. Cameron) contemporarily engraved naming, mounted as worn, contact marks, very fine (4) £120-£160

M.I.D. London Gazette, 31 December 1918.

Alexander Duncan Cameron, from Montreal, was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 8 April 18898. He attested into the Black Watch of Canada for service during the Great War on 11 May 1915, stating previous military service in the U.K. with the Black Watch. He served on the Western Front from 9 October 1915 and was later Advanced Acting Staff Sergeant on 11 August 1917 and was Mentioned in Despatches the following year, before his discharge on 12 April 1919. He later died in an accident on 30 March 1951.

Sold with copied service papers.