Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Lance-Corporal J. Wooder, 18th (Western Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded in November 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (412053 A.L. Cpl. J. Wooder, 18/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (412053 L. Cpl. J. Wooder, 18-Can. Inf.), good very fine or better (3) £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 2 November 1917.

James Wooder was born in London, England, on 6 September 1878, and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Port Hope, Ontario, in May 1915.

Embarked for England, he went out to France as a member of the 18th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, in May 1916 and was slightly wounded in November 1917, but remained on duty - the same month in which the award of his M.M. was gazetted, possibly for gallantry at Hill 70.

Wooder was discharged at Toronto in April 1919; sold with copied service papers.