A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Memorial Plaque awarded in remembrance of Private W. D. Williamson, 7th (1st British Columbia) Battalion, who died of wounds in July 1915

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (William David Williamson), in card envelope, minor edge bruising, good very fine £40-60

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

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William Dundas Williamson - note ’David’ on plaque - was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, in February 1884. Enlisting in the C.E.F. at Valcartier in September 1914, he was serving with the 7th (1st British Columbia) Battalion when he died of wounds on 5 July 1915, having suffered a gunshot to the abdomen. He was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France; sold with copied service papers.