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№ 144

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5 December 2018

Hammer Price:
£320

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private G. R. Van Dusen, 18th (West Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (880764 Pte. G. R. Van Dusen. 18/W. Ont. R.) with official corrections, cleaned, very fine £180-£220

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

G. R. Van Dusen was born in Blenheim, Ontario, Canada, in March 1885. He enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in May 1916, and served during the Great War with the 18th (Western Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry in the French theatre from September 1917. He returned to Canada in May 1919, and was discharged later the same month.