Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of five miniature dress medals worn by Major H. C. Hatch, 19th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, the reverse of the suspension bar engraved ‘Major H. C. Hatch 19th. Canadians’, with integral top riband bar; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar, mounted court-style as worn, nearly very fine and better

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., reverse engraved ‘Maj. C. A. Eliot. P.L.D.G.’, with integral top riband bar, very fine (6) £80-£120

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Harry Cecil Hatch was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 5 September 1888 and attested there for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 12 November 1914. He served with the 19th Battalion, Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and commanded them from 3 March to 12 June 1918 (with the rank of Acting Lieutenant-Colonel). For his services during the Great War he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 1 June 1917, 28 December 1917, and 11 July 1919) and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.