A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private A. E. Dove, 19th (Central Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was severely wounded at the Battle of Amiens in August 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (245826 Pte. A. E. Dove, 19/Bn. 1/C. Ont. R.), slight edge bruising, good very fine £350-400

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.

Arthur Edward Dove was born in Middleton-on-the-Wolds, East Yorkshire, on 9 July 1890. A Farm Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the 116th (Ontario County) Battalion at Port Perry, Ontario on 17 February 1916.Transferred to the 19th (1st Central Ontario) Battalion in October 1916, he served in the unit’s Trench Mortar Battery and was severely wounded - struck in both legs by shrapnel - during the Battle of Amiens on 13 August 1918, winning his M.M. on the same occasion.

Invalided back to Canada in April 1919, he was discharged as medically unfit at Toronto in the following month. Dove, whose right leg refused to heal properly and was eventually amputated, returned to his old home town in England, where he died in December 1969; sold with copied service papers.