Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant H. E. Headley, 75th (Mississauga) Battalion, Canadian Infantry

British War Medal 1914-20 (150111 A.R.Q.M. Sjt. H. E. Headley, 75-Can. Inf.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (150111 A.R.Q.M. Sjt. H. [E.] Headley, 75-Can.), this last with severe edge bruise over second initial, otherwise very fine or better (2) £30-50

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

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Henry Edward Headley was born in Montreal on 17 August 1883. A Hotel Keeper by profession, he enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Brandon, Winnipeg, in July 1915, when it was noted he had a scar on his left forearm, ‘due to G.S.W. 1902’.

Posted to the 75th Battalion out in France in April 1917, where he would have been present in the Vimy offensive, he was invalided with a heart murmur that October, a complaint caused by the ‘stress of the campaign’, including six weeks in hospital with trench fever. And he was duly discharged back in Winnipeg as medically unfit for further service in September 1918; sold with copied service papers.