Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private W. Bertin, Eastern Ontario Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (4..139 Pte. W. Bertin, 21/E.O.R.), attempted erasure of naming, which is now faint and obscurred, nearly very fine £200-250

M.M. London Gazette 3 July 1919.

William Bertin was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, on 15 May 1897. A Labourer by occupation, he attested for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Sussex, New Brunswick on 12 June 1915. Serving with the 55th Battalion, he arrived in England in November 1915. He was then posted to France with the 21st Battalion in April 1916. On 28 September 1916 he was admitted to No.5 Canadian Fierld Ambulance with a gunshot wound to the fingers. After being transferred to No.4 Canadian Field Ambulance he was discharged back to duty on 5 October 1916. Bertin was awarded a Good Conduct Badge on 12 June 1917. He was again wounded, sometime during 9-12 November 1917, receiving a contusion to the ankle. On 21 November 1917 he was transferred to the Eastern Ontario Regiment and admitted to No.16 (Philadelphia, U.S.A.) General Hospital at Le Treport. Private Bertin returned to Canada in May 1919. Sold with copied service papers.