Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Norman Armstrong Ireson, Canadian Army Service Corps

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these all unnamed; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Canada, reverse impressed, ‘Major C. N. A. Ireson’, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (5) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Charles Norman Armstrong Ireson was appointed a provisional and supernumerary Lieutenant in the 12th Regiment (York Rangers) on 8 May 1915. He was later appointed a provisional and supernumerary Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Service Corps on 19 January 1916. Serving in Canada he was discharged at Regina on 30 October 1918. The next day he enlisted in the C.E.F. and served in Canada until discharged in June 1919. After the Great War he continued to serve in the Militia. He enlisted at Toronto in October 1922 and served until discharged in August 1939, being then a Lieutenant-Colonel. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Canada), this published in the Canada Gazette of 6 October 1934. Ireson was discharged on 31 August 1939 but was recalled the next day. He then served throughout the War in Canada.

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