Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Red River 1870 (Sgt. A. G. Isaacson. Que. R.) Canadian style impressed naming, toned, extremely fine £2,000-£2,600

Alfred Gowan Isaacson received a medal for Fenian Raid 1866 for service in the Montreal Garrison Artillery, and subsequently a clasp for Red River 1870. He was also issued with a single clasp medal for Red River 1870, named as above as a Sergeant in the Quebec Rifles. This latter medal was subsequently recalled by Headquarters, but there is no indication on the Public Archives Canada roll as to whether Isaacson complied with this request. (Medal Roll of the Red River Campaign of 1870 by Graham H. Neale and Ross W. Irwin refers)

Sold with copied P.A.C. medal roll entry for 2nd (or Quebec) Battalion of Riflemen, confirming medal with Red River clasp to Sergeant Alfred Gowan Isaacson, ‘1 May ‘70 - 24 Ap. ‘71 at Lr. Ft. Gary, attack from the enemy’.