A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant J. S. Alexander, Canadian Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (469 Sjt. J. S. Alexander, Can. E.); British War and Victory Medals (469 Sjt. J. S. Alexander, C.E.), together with his identity disc, inscribed ‘J. S. Alexander,, No. 469, 6 F.C.C.E., Canadians, Pres.’, extremely fine (4) £300-350

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 24 January 1919.

James S. Alexander was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1889. A Locomotive Fireman by occupation, he attested for service in the Canadian Engineers at Ottawa in February 1916 and was serving with the 6th Field Company, 2nd Divisional Engineers, when he arrived in England that April. Entering France that September, he was serving in the 2nd Divisional Pontoon Bridging Unit at the time of winning his M.M. He was discharged at Vancouver in April 1919; sold with copied service papers.