Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant A. J. Wall, 2nd Battalion (East Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved, ‘Lt. A. J. Wall, 1918’; 1914-15 Star (81914 Sjt. A. J. Wall, 2/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. J. Wall); Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45, silver, very fine and better (6) £1000-1200

M.C. London Gazette 30 July 1918.

Alfred James Wall was born in Swindon, England, in October 1886, and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Winnipeg in December 1914, when he stated he had previous service of ‘6 years in the Royal Marines Light Infantry’.

Embarked for England, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion (East Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry, and first went out to France in May 1915, where he was quickly saw action o the Ypres front and was advanced to Sergeant. Subsequently commissioned in the temporary rank of Lieutenant in January 1917, he would have been present in operations on Vimy Ridge and at Passchendaele, and was awarded his M.C. for services in the following year, prior to being re-embarked for Canada in April 1919; sold with copied service details.