Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. A. Des-Rivieres, Army Service Corps
British War and Victory Medals (M2-152899 Pte. J. A. Des-Rivieres. A.S.C.) mounted for wear, with a photographic image which gives him as serving as a ‘Despatch Rider in the armies of General Smutz. Age 17’, generally very fine or better

Pair: Private A. Tremblay, Canadian Machine Gun Brigade
British War and Victory Medals (3317459 Pte. A. Tremblay. C.M.G. Bde.) very fine

1914-15 Star (109060 Pte S. H. P. Gidman. 2/Can: M.R.B.H.Q.) gilded, generally good very fine (5) £60-£80

Alphonse Tremblay was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in June 1897.

Sidney Herbert Pownall Gidman was born in Macclesfield Cheshire in July 1877. He emigrated to Canada, and resided at 8 St. Mark Street, Montreal, Quebec. Gidman served during the Great War as a Staff Sergeant with the 2nd Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles Headquarters Staff on the Western Front (entitled to Silver War Badge).