Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of eight awarded to Corporal W. Urquhart, Canadian Field Artillery and Royal Household

Military Medal, G.V.R. (86205 Bmbr., 17/By. Can. F.A.); Royal Victorian Medal, E.II.R., silver, unnamed; British War and Victory Medals (86205 Cpl., C.F.A.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, these unnamed; Royal Household Long and Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R., ‘1920-1940’, with ‘Thirty Years’ clasp (Urquhart, William), in glazed wooden frame, ‘Victory’ with edge bruise, good very fine and better (8) £700-800

M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

R.V.M. (silver) London Gazette 1 June 1953.

William Urquhart was the son of William Urquhart of 60 Main Street, Aberchirder, Banff. He emigrated to Canada in 1911. With the onset of war, he enlisted into the Canadian Field Artillery as a Driver at Winnipeg on 16 December 1914. He embarked for overseas service, sailing from Montreal aboard the S.S. Metagama on 9 August 1915. Serving in France with the Canadian Second Division, he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery. After the war he followed his father and was employed on the Balmoral Estate where he subsequently became Forman Forester. For his services to the Royal Household he was awarded the Long and Faithful Service Medal in 1940 and the R.V.M. in 1953, on the occasion of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. His wife, Helen, for many years ran the general merchant’s shop on the Balmoral Estate.

Sold with framed certificates of award for the Royal Victorian Medal and the Long and Faithful Service Medal; newspaper cutting with obituary, and other research. For his father’s medals, see lot 1016.