Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (466132 Sjt. F. W. D. Sorby. 13-Can. Inf.) good very fine £80-£120

D.C.M. London Gazette 15 November 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and ability during an attack. He employed his Lewis gun to great tactical advantage, killing a large number of the enemy. By giving covering fire with his gun, he was responsible for the capture of two strong points by his section. He rendered most valuable service.’

D.C.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 15 November 1918:
‘When his platoon was advancing on a village along a sap, the enemy attempted a flanking movement. This N.C.O. rushed out with a Lewis gun, and beat them off with many casualties. The platoon was next held up by a defended wire block. In attempting to rush it he was wounded by a bomb bursting on his helmet. He next found one of his men, who was missing, lying very badly wounded. He picked him up and carried him back under a hail of bombs.’

Frederick William Dare Sorby was born in Todwick, Yorkshire, on 13 April 1889, and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Edmonton on 4 January 1915, having previously served for three years in the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers. He served with the 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and was awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal and a Second Award Bar, one of only three such combinations of awards to the unit. Wounded to the head on 16 August 1918, and to the knee on 28 September, he died of his wounds on 9 October 1918, and is buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, France.

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