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

A Great War M.M. and Bar group of three to Lieutenant F. C. Wright, Manitoba Regiment, late 16th Canadian Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (700494 Pte., 16 / Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), together with a Canadian Scottish cap badge, nearly extremely fine (4) £450-550

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.M. London Gazette 19 November 1917.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 24 January 1919.

Frederick Charles Wright enlisted into the 101st Canadian Infantry at Winnipeg in December 1915. Sailing with the battalion from Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the S.S. Olympic, he arrived in France with the 16th Canadian Infantry on 3 November 1916. Wright was wounded at the battle of Hill 70, Passchendale on 15 August 1917. He was again wounded as a member of the Manitoba Regiment on 19 August 1918 during the advance on the Fresnoy-Hattencourt Line. He returned to England on 30 August 1918 and on 22 November 1918 was struck off the strength of the 16th Regiment on being commissioned into the Manitoba Regiment. For his wartime services he was awarded the M.M. and Bar. After the war he served in the Police Force in Essex. Sold with copied service papers and other research.