A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant A. E. Hussack, 58th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was twice wounded

Military Medal, G.V.R. (453665 Sjt. A. E. Hussack, 58/Can. Inf. Bn.); British War and Victory Medals (453665 Sjt. A. E. Hussack, 58-Can. Inf.), nearly extremely fine (3) £400-450

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 6 January 1917. The original recommendation states:

‘For conspicuous gallantry when in command of two Lewis guns. He established his guns in a portion of the enemy’s trench which had been captured and when both crews had been put out of action he carried on himself with one gun and held off a counter-attack. When forced to retire he brought two wounded men with him.’

Albert Edgar Hussack was born in Orillia, Ontario on 15 May 1879. A Lumberman by trade, and a member of the Militia, he enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Niagara, Ontario, in August 1915.

Embarked for England, he first went out to France as a Sergeant in the 58th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, in February 1916, and was wounded by shrapnel in his back on the Somme that May - having been ‘blown up twice by a shell’. Rejoining his unit in the following month, he was awarded his M.M. for the above cited deeds in September 1916, but was soon afterwards back in hospital suffering from Myalgia.

Back with his unit by the new year, he was again wounded on 25 August 1918, once more by shell fragments in his back. Hussack was discharged back in Canada in March 1919; sold with copied service papers.