Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. James, Northern Pioneers

British War and Victory Medals (T. Capt. R. H. James); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed ‘Major R. H. James, N. Prs.’, silver and silver-gilt, with integral top riband bar, in Royal Mint case of issue; Canadian War Service Badge, (159199), bronze and enamel screw-backed badge, extremely fine (4) £360-420

Sold with Canadian Certificate of Military Qualification, dated 21 & 22 April 1915, having passed the prescribed examination for the rank of Captain; Warrant, appointing Reginald Heler James to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Northern Pioneers; War Service Badge Certificate, confirming badge ‘159199’ to ‘R. H. James’ of the ‘C.R.T.D.’; a medal forwarding slip; and with a section of The Northern News, of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, dated 6 August 1937, in which a speech given by Colonel Jameson on the history of markets ‘from the time of Adam’ is recorded.