A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

Pair: Flight Cadet G. C. Boyer, Royal Air Force, late Canadian Army Service Corps

British War and Victory Medals (316425 F. Cdt. G. C. Boyer, R.A.F.), the last with correction to unit, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-120

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

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George Cathcart Boyer was born in Brighton, Sussex, on 8 June 1897. A Student of Electricity by occupation, he enlisted in to the 4th (McGill) Universities Company, P.P.C.L.I., at Toronto in September 1915, having previously served two weeks as a Private in the 35th (Simcoe) Battalion at Niagara. Arriving in England in December 1915, he was posted to the Canadian Army Service Corps and proceeded to France in February 1917. In December of that year, however, he returned to England to take up appointment as a Flight Cadet in the Royal Flying Corps. Accordingly discharged from the C.A.S.C. in May 1918, he moved to Hollywood, California, after the War, to become an actor, where his address was given as 6400 Dix Street, Hollywood.

Sold with a quantity of original artefacts and documentation, including his R.A.F. cap badge, several R.A.F. buttons, a ‘Canada University Overseas Company’ badge. and two ‘Canada’ shoulder badges; a hand written letter from George Boyer to ‘My darling little Pog’, dated 10 August 1933, on Canadian Pacific Railway Company (S.S. Princess Elaine) headed paper; a birthday card to his wife ‘Peggy Pog’; and a quantity of original photographs - some studio, others military or personal - together with copied service papers.