Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant H. A. Colquhoun, 16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, attached Royal Naval Air Service

1914-15 Star (Lieut: H. A. Colquhoun. 16/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. A. Colquhoun.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine (3) £80-£120

Humphrey Alexander Colquhoun was born on 17 December 1894 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier on 24 September 1914. He served with the 16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 April 1915, being slightly gassed within his first week on the Front, and was later seconded to the Royal Naval Air Service on 11 December 1915. He was discharged, medically unfit, on 23 July 1919.