Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Corporal C. I. Davis, Canadian Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (109296 Sapr., 3/D.S. Coy. Can. E.); 1914-15 Star (109296 Pte., 4/Can. M. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (109296 A. Cpl., 4-C.M.R.) mounted for wear; Silver War Badge (C51023), slight edge bruising, good very fine (5) £380-420

M.M. London Gazette 23 February 1918.

Charles Joseph Davis was born in Toronto on 30 November 1897. A Photograph Engraver by occupation, he attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Toronto on 28 March 1915. Serving with the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, he entered France on 24 October 1915. Attached to the 3rd Canadian Division Signal Company, Canadian Engineers, as a Sapper, he earned the Military Medal. On 28 October 1917 he suffered mustard gas poisoning and was invalided to England. Davis was discharged as ‘Medically unfit’ at Toronto on 10 January 1919. He died at Seal Beach, California on 26 August 1966. With copied service papers, negative photographs of the recipient; also with metal backing for a wound stripe.