A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Acting Sergeant-Major J. M. Brown, Canadian Army Medical Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (531661 S. Sjt. J. M. Brown, Can. A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (531661 A.S. Mjr. J. M. Brown, C.A.M.C.), extremely fine (3) £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 McCullock Brown was born in Kilkerran, Scotland, on 17 March 1889. Moving to Canada, he settled in Winnipeg as a Lecturer at the Agricultural College. He enlisted into the Canadian Army Medical Corps in March 1916 and was attached to the 11th Field Ambulance. Arriving in England in June 1916 and France in August the same year, he was advanced to Sergeant in January 1917 and Acting Sergeant-Major in May 1919. Awarded the M.M., he was demobilised in May 1919, and settled in Collingwood, Ontario; sold with copied service papers and original Fourth Army listing of immediate awards including that for Brown - this addressed to ‘Miss C. F. Brown, Richmount, Prestwich, Ayrshire, Scotland’.