Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant R. T. MacLaren, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. T. Mac Laren.) mounted as worn, together with pressed card identity disc, good very fine (2) £40-£50

Ralph Thompson MacLaren was born at Meaford, Ontario, in 1878, son of Rev. J. B. MacLaren and M.H. Thompson, both Scottish, whose ancestors went to Canada in about 1810. Educated at Oshawa, Whitby High School, and Trinity Medical College, M.D. 1901. Underwent intern and Post Graduate experience in London, England, and commenced practice at Moosomin, Sask., and then Whitby. Commissioned as Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1915 and served in rance 1916; Somme, La Bassé; discharged 1917.