Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Pair: Private M. Ward, 8th Canadian Infantry, the Winnipeg Rifles

British War and Victory Medals (829538 Pte., 8-Can. Inf.), good very fine, together with related Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially engraved, ‘829538 Pte. M. Ward’

Three: Private J. Ward, 24th Canadian Infantry

1914-15 Star (66016 Pte., 24/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (66016 Pte., 24-Can. Inf.), together with related Memorial Plaque to ‘James Ward’ and Vimy Ridge Memorial medallion (8) £140-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Mark Ward was killed in action in on 10 November 1917 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.

James Ward, who was from Point Saint Charles, Quebec, was killed in action on 16 September 1916 and is commemorated on the Vimy Ridge Memorial.