Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private M. Cole, 50th (Calgary) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded in September 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (3206718 Pte. M. Cole, 50/Alberta R.); British War and Victory Medals (3206718 Pte. M. Cole, 50-Can. Inf.), the first with edge bruising and contact marks, fine, the others very fine (3) £400-450

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 14 May 1919.

Milford Cole was born in Clarks, Nebraska, U.S.A., on 13 July 1894. As a Farmer living in Redcliff, Alberta, he enlisted into the 1st Depot Battalion Alberta Regiment in February 1918 and arrived in England in April 1918. Proceeding to France to serve with the 50th Battalion in August 1918, he was wounded in action on 27 September, with shrapnel to the left side of his chest, and was invalided to England. Awarded the M.M., he was demobilised at Calgary in February 1919 and died in 1967; sold with copied service papers.