Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private W. Eaton, Royal Canadian Regiment, who was wounded in action, 29 September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (207983 Pte W. Eaton. R. Can: R.) nearly very fine £260-£300

M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

William Eaton was the son of Annie Brown, of Rosemount Road, Arbroath, Scotland, and was born there in December 1884. He attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Calagary in February 1916, and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment in France from October 1916. Eaton received a gun shot wound to the thigh, fracturing his Femur, 29 September 1918. He was invalided to Canada, 8 August 1919, and discharged as medically unfit at Calgary in January 1920. Eaton died in Vancouver in February 1972.