A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private L. Larson, 50th (Calgary) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded at Vimy Ridge and again at Amiens

Military Medal, G.V.R. (811029 Pte. L. Larson, 50/Alberta R.); British War and Victory Medals (811029 Pte. L. Larson, 50-Can. Inf.), some contact marks, second with scratch marks to obverse, very fine (3) £450-500

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 11 February 1919.

Louis Larsen was born in Trondheim, Norway, on 25 April 1883. A Bridge Carpenter by occupation, he enlisted into the 138th (Edmonton) Batttalion in December 1915. Proceeding to England and thence France, he was taken on to the strength of the 50th (Calgary) Battalion, and was wounded in action at Vimy Ridge on 10 April 1917 and again at Amiens on 12 August 1918 - on the latter occasion, being wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, he was invalided to England. Awarded the M.M., Larson was discharged in January 1919; sold with copied service papers.