Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private George Henderson, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, who was killed in action at Vimy Ridge and who was brother to Captain Arthur Henderson, V.C., M.C.

British War and Victory Medals (687891 Pte. G. Henderson. 2-C.M.R.) together with Memorial Plaque (George Henderson) extremely fine (2) £300-£400

George Henderson, Private, No. 687891, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder son of Bailie George Henderson, of Riccartsbar Avenue, Paisley; and brother to Captain Arthur Henderson, V.C., M.C.; born in Glasgow on 1 December 1884; educated at Ferguslie School, Paisley, where he took a Brough Bursary, and on leaving school was employed in the Building trade with his father; went to British Columbia in 1911, and settled at Lytton, where he was employed in the Civil Engineering Department of the Canadian North Pacific Railway; joined the 172nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (Rocky Mountain Rangers) in March 1916, and, after training at Vernon, British Columbia, came to England the following October; served with the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles in France and Flanders from November 1916; was reported missing after the fighting at Vimy Ridge, 9 April 1917, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date (The Roll of Honour refers). He is commemorated by name on the Vimy Memorial.

Captain Arthur Henderson, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, won the M.C. on the Somme in July 1916, and the V.C. at Fontaine-les-Croisilles, France on 23 April 1917, and was killed in action there the following day.

Sold with copied record of service for George Henderson and other research.