Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain M. A. McKechnie, Canadian Army Medical Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (Capt. M. A. McKechnie, M.C.); together with a medal inscribed, ‘In Grateful Memory of Capt. M. McKechnie, M.C., killed in action 8 Aug. 1918’ and, ‘Presented by the Preparedness League, Walkerton’, 33mm., silvered metal, with brooch bar inscribed, ‘Greater love hath no man than this -’ extremely fine (5) £800-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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M.C. London Gazette 7 November 1918 (Canadian Gazette 21 December 1918). ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He worked with untiring perseverance in evacuating the wounded from the field of action, under heavy fire, until he was seriously wounded himself. It was largely due to his efforts and self-sacrifice that the casualties were so successfully and rapidly evacuated from the area’.

Captain Malcolm Archibald McKechnie, 6th Field Ambulance, C.A.M.C., died of wounds on 8 August 1918. He was buried in Vignacourt British Cemetery, Somme, France. He was the son of Donald and Barbara McKecknie of Walkerton, Ontario.