Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Warrant Officer Class II E. Stein, Canadian Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (43188 Gnr: -A.Bmbr:- E. Stein. 1/Hy: By: Can: G.A.); 1914-15 Star (43188 Gnr: E. Stein. Can: Fd: Art:); British War and Victory Medals (43188 Sjt. E. Stein. C.F.A.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (Bty. S.M. (W.O. Cl.II) E. Stein M.M. 2nd. Med. Bde. C.A.) nearly very fine and better (5) £400-£500

M.M. London Gazette 22 February 1918.

Edward Stein was born Poole, Dorset, on 19 October 1891, and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 24 September 1914. He served during the Great War with the 1st Heavy Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, as part of the First Canadian Contingent on the Western Front, and was awarded the Military Medal. Promoted Sergeant on 24 September 1918, he was discharged at Montreal, Quebec, on 7 March 1919, but remained in the Auxiliary Forces and, having been advanced Battery Sergeant Major (Warrant Officer Class II) he was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal in February 1932. Returning to the U.K., he died at Dartmouth, Devon, on 23 July 1963.

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