Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel C. N. A. Ireson, Canadian Army Service Corps

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Canada, reverse impressed ‘Major C. N. A. Ireson’, with integral top riband bar, good very fine and better (5) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009.

Charles Norman Armstrong Ireson was appointed a provisional and supernumerary Lieutenant in the 12th Regiment (York Rangers) on 8 May 1915. He was later appointed a provisional and supernumerary Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Service Corps on 19 January 1916. Serving in Canada he was discharged at Regina on 30 October 1918. The next day he enlisted in the C.E.F. and served in Canada until discharged in June 1919. After the Great War he continued to serve in the Militia, enlisting at Toronto in October 1922, and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Canada) in 1934 (Canada Gazette 6 October 1934). Advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 November 1935, he was discharged on 31 August 1939, but was recalled the next day, and served throughout the Second World War in Canada.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.