The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount

A Great War M.C. group of four to Major W. R. Mount, Royal Engineers, late 9th Canadian Infantry

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Major W. R. Mount, R.E., 1918’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Major) good very fine (4) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919 (T. / Capt. (A. / Maj.) (now T. Maj.), 259th Rly Const. Coy., R.E.).

Wilfred Rowland Mount was born in 1888 and educated at Bradfield College and Camborne School of Mines. A mining engineer, he worked as a surveyor of mines on the west coast of Africa in 1910 and then as Assistant Engineer on the Canadian Northern Railway and Assistant Engineer with the City of Edmonton Council. Enlisting with the 101st Regiment Edmonton Fusiliers in August 1914, he came over to England and entered the French theatre of war on 15 April 1915 as a Sergeant in the 9th Canadian Infantry. He received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1915, attaining the rank of Major on 1917. Sold with copied service papers and other research.