Auction Catalogue

21 September 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1320

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21 September 2001

Hammer Price:
£410

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant R. L. Bagshaw, 14th Canadian Infantry, later Canadian Forestry Corps

Military Medal
, G.V.R. 440290 Pte., 14/Can. Inf. Bn.); British War and Victory Medals (440290 W.O.Cl.2., 14-Can. Inf.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (440290 R.Q.M. Sjt., M.M., Can. For. C.) together with an aluminium identity disc, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-250

M.M. London Gazette 21 December 1916.

M.S.M.
London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Ralph Lindsay Bagshaw was admitted to No. 2 General Hospital, Havre on 28 September 1916 suffering from a gunshot wound to the scalp. As a result of this wound he was detained in hospital for six weeks, and subsequently transferred to the Canadian Forestry Corps.