Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal C. E. Maddin, Canadian Army Medical Corps, who was wounded in action in October 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (531780 Pte. C. E. Maddin, Can. A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (531780 Cpl. C. E. Maddin, C.A.M.C.), nearly very fine (3) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 14 May 1919.

Clarence Elmo Maddin was born in Selkirk, Manitoba, on 15 January 1890. A Medical Student at the time of his enlistment in April 1916, he joined the 11th Overseas Field Ambulance. He arrived in England in May 1816 and France in August 1916 and served in the same unit until wounded in the leg and hand during the Battles of Canal du Nord and Bourlon Wood in early October 1918. Awarded the M.M., after leaving hospital in December 1918 he was assigned to the 9th Canadian Stationary Hospital. He was demobilised at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in July 1919 and died in Vancouver in October 1970.

Sold with copied research and a photographic image of the recipient taken in later life.