Orders, Decorations and Medals

Nine: Major L. F. Dawes, Canadian Infantry

1914-15 Star (432739 Pte., 49/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (432739 Pte., 49-Can. Inf.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence, silver issue; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas service clasp; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, silver issue; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, rev. inscribed, ‘Maj. L. F. Dawes’, lacking top bar, medals and emblems silvered and gilded and mounted court style for wear, very fine and better (9) £240-280

Leonard Frederick Dawes joined the 49th Battalion Canadian Infantry (Edmonton Regiment) at the age of 15 years. His underage service in the trenches not being discovered for some time. He remained with the regiment after the war. When the unit was mobilised in August 1939 he was a Lieutenant. Soon after he was advanced to Captain and Quartermaster, serving with the Headquarters Company. On 31 August 1940 Dawes captured the units’ first German prisoner-of-war in the form of a badly wounded German airman. Later as a Major, he was employed as a Staff Officer in Rome and in 1945 was mentioned in despatches. Major Dawes was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1950. Sold with copied extracts from A City goes to War, by G. R. Stevens, and other copied research.