Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major A. W. Bishop, Royal Canadian Engineers, late Nova Scotia Highlanders

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Forces Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (Maj. A. W. Bishop) mounted as worn, very fine and better (6) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Alonzo Wentworth Bishop was born in Nova Scotia on 21 March 1910 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Canadian Militia in August 1940. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders, he remained likewise employed until transferring to the Royal Canadian Engineers (R.C.E.) in July 1941. Embarked for the U.K. in July 1943, where he joined H.Q., 1st Canadian Army Troops, R.C.E., Bishop was deployed to Normandy on 6 July 1944, when his unit was attached to British 1 Corps. In October, however, he returned to the U.K. to attend Bailey Bridge and airfield construction courses. Duly qualified, he rejoined his unit on the River Maas in January 1945 and subsequently participated in the crossing of the Rhine.

Re-embarked for Canada in February 1946, Bishop remained on the strength of the R.C.E. and was advanced to Major in January 1951 and awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration in October 1953. Placed on the Retired List in March 1962, he died in New Brunswick in October 1992.

Sold with assorted identity discs, badges, buttons and pips, the whole mounted on a display board with a portrait photographic image.