Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private W. W. Gregory, 4th (Central Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded in action in October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (18950 Pte. W. W. Gregory, 4/Bn. 1/C. Ont. R.), edge bruising, very fine £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 3 July 1919.

Wandle William Gregory was born in Mason City, West Virginia, U.S.A., on 23 June 1883. Living in Washington County, Washington and employed as a Labourer, he enlisted into the 9th Battalion at Valcartier in September 1914, and served with the 4th (Central Ontario) Battalion in England and France. Wounded on 2 October 1918 with a gunshot wound to the chest, and awarded the M.M., he was discharged at Calgary in March 1919. Gregory died in March 1959; sold with copied service papers.