Auction Catalogue

21 May 2020

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 300 x

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21 May 2020

Hammer Price:
£200

Three: Lance-Corporal H. T. Davis, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 28 October 1916
1914-15 Star (106185 Pte. H. T. Davis. 1/Can: Mtd: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals (106185 L. Cpl. H. T. Davis. 1-C.M.R.) nearly very fine

Three:
Private H. B. Bennett, Canadian Army Medical Corps
1914-15 Star (50016 Pte. H. B. Bennett. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (50016 Pte. H. B. Bennett. C.A.M.C.) nearly very fine

Pair:
Captain H. J. Budge, Canadian Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Hon. Capt. H. J. Budge.); together with a City of Winnipeg Public Baths Charles Street Swimming Gala 1915 Prize Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘1st. Won by H. J. Budge.’, edge bruising, nearly very fine (9) £90-£110

Harold Thomas Davis was born in Perth, Ontario, on 4 March 1886, and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 5 January 1915. He served with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 28 October 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France.