Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Acting Company Sergeant-Major H. B. Kenner, Canadian Army Veterinary Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (48503 S. Sjt. H. B. Kenner, 3/M.V. Sec. Can. A.V.C.); 1914-15 Star (48503 S. Sjt. H. B. Kenner, Can. A.V.C.); British War and Victory Medals (48503 A.C.S. Mjr. H. B. Kenner, C.A.V.C.); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., ‘Canada’, unnamed, contact marks and one or two edge bruises, very fine or better (5) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Ron Penhall Collection.

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One of just four M.Ms awarded to the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps in the Great War.

M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918.

Harold Binmore Kenner was born at Lydford, Devon in January 1884 and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expedionary Force at Montreal in October 1914. Appointed a Staff Sergeant in No. 1 Veterinary Section in England, he went to France in July 1915 but was evacuated as a result of illness in April 1916. Returning to his unit in the Field that July, Kenner shortly afterwards transferred to No. 3 Mobile Veterinary Section, C.A.V.C., with whom he won his M.M. for services in December 1917 (regimental records refer). Then in April 1918 he was once more evacuated to England, this time as a result of accidentally obtained injuries - most probably from a horse kick. He saw no further active service and was finally discharged in the rank of Acting Company Sergeant-Major in May 1919; his entitlement to the Efficiency Decoration requires verification.

Provenance: J. B. Hayward, September 1971.