Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of three awarded to Major Percy Wilson Freeman, 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles, Quebec Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; British War and Victory Medals (Major); together with an American Red Cross First Aid Medal, bronze, brooch bar inscribed, ‘Won by P. W. Freeman, Capt.’; with a ‘C.E.F.’ lapel badge, bronze and enamel, reverse stamped, ‘397071’, very fine and better (5) £600-800

M.C. Canada Gazette 29 March 1919. ‘Capt., 5th Bn., Can. Mtd. Rif., Quebec Regt.’ ‘This officer displayed great skill in leading his company in a successful attack. During the last 100 yards of the advance his left flank was in the air, but by quick initiative he took the necessary steps to defend it. His apt leadership and skilful handling of his company greatly added to the success of the operation.’

Percy Wilson Freeman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 15 July 1892. An Electrician by occupation, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 63rd Regiment (Halifax Rifles) on 20 April 1915. He attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 27 September 1915.

With original commission document, 20 April 1915 and copied gazette extracts and attestation papers.