Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel H. R. Cleveland, Canadian Dental Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H. R. Cleveland); Defence Medal 1939-45, silver; Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, together with his identity bracelet, inscribed, ‘Capt. H. Ross Cleveland, C.A.D.C.. C. of E.’, nearly extremely fine (6) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Henry Ross Cleveland was born in Richmond, Quebec, on 20 February 1893. Educated at Montreal High School and McGill University, from which he graduated in 1915, he enlisted into the 117th Battalion Canadian Infantry in the same year, then transferred to the Canadian Dental Corps, and was attached to the 9th and 14th Field Ambulances out in France.

Demobilised as a Captain in September 1919, he ran a private dental practice in Montreal, but with the renewal of hostilities, he once more enlisted. Appointed to his old rank, he was posted to 2nd Canadian Division Dental Company, attached to the Royal Highlanders of Canada, then the Toronto Scottish, in addition to working at hospitals in England. Re-embarked for Canada in 1943, he was appointed Senior Dental Officer at No. 7 Dental Company, Delbert, Nova Scotia, and then at No. 29 Dental Company, Camp Borden, Ontario. Demobized as a Lieutenant-Colonel at his own request due to ill health in May 1945, he died in Montreal in August 1954; sold with copied obituary and service papers.