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Sold on 19 September 2013

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A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

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№ 527

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19 September 2013

Hammer Price:
£390

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant J. K. McIntosh, Canadian Field Artillery, who was wounded in August 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (304409 Sjt. J. K. McIntosh, Can. F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (304409 Sjt. J. K. McIntosh, C.F.A.), nearly extremely fine (3) £280-320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 20 August 1919.

John Kenneth McIntosh was born in Coburg, Ontario, on 25 August 1888. A Lineman by trade, he enlisted into the 34th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, at Toronto in November 1915, and served with the 6th Battery, 2nd Brigade, in France, where he was wounded on 29 August 1918 - namely by shrapnel in the left buttock and right shoulder. Awarded the M.M., he was demobilised at Halifax, N.S., in April 1919’ sold with copied service papers.