A Great War 1916 ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of five awarded to Staff Sergeant F. V. Scott, Machine Gun Squadron, Canadian Cavalry Brigade, later Captain, Royal Canadian Dragoons

Military Medal, G.V.R. (51 S. Sjt: F. V. Scott. Can: Cav: Bde: M.G. Sq:); 1914-15 Star (51 S. Sjt F. V. Scott. R. Can: Dns:); British War and Victory Medals (A. Capt. F. V. Scott.); Defence Medal, generally nearly very fine (5) £500-£600

M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Fred Veasey Scott was born in Northampton, England in January 1882. He was a Lawyer by profession, and attested for the Royal Canadian Dragoons at Toronto, Ontario in January 1906. Scott was a pre-war member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons Instructional Staff. He initially served during the Great War as a Sergeant with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, prior to transferring as a Staff Sergeant to the Machine Gun Squadron, Canadian Cavalry Brigade. He was commissioned in to the RCD in November 1916.

Sold with copied research, and a photographic image of recipient in uniform as part of the Sergeants’ Mess, Royal School of Cavalry, St. Johns, P.Q., 1912.