A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

Six: Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant A. McLean, Canadian Garrison Artillery, late Royal Canadian Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (8131 Pte. A. McLean, Rl. Candn. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (12578524 B.Q.M. Sjt. A. MacLean, C.G.A.), note surname spelling; Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (C.Q.M.S. Aneas McLean, R.C.A.); Army Meritorious Medal, G.V.R. (C.Q.M.S. A. McLean, R.C.G.A.), one or two edge bruises, very fine or better (6) £400-500

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

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Aeneas McLean was born in King’s County, Nova Scotia, on 6 July 1874, and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery in November 1897. Having then served in the Boer War with the Royal Canadian Regiment, he volunteered for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in July 1916, and went on to witness active service in France with No. 9 Siege Battery, from March 1917 up until his evacuation to England, via No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, on account of illness, in March 1918. And he was duly discharged at Halifax, Nova Scotia, as medically unfit for further service, in August of the same year; sold with copied service papers.

MSM is Canadian issue with ‘Canada’ on reverse