Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Acting Staff Sergeant J. R. Coutts, 15th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, who was awarded the M.M. for his gallantry near Courcelette on 8 October 1916

Military Medal, G.V.R. (83964 Gnr. J. R. Coutts. Can: F.A.); 1914-15 Star (83964 Gnr: J. R. Coutts. Can: Fd: Art:); British War and Victory Medals (83964 A.S. Sjt. J. R. Coutts. C.F.A.) very fine and better (4) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 9 December 1916.
The original Recommendation states: ‘For gallantry and devotion to duty on 8 October 1916, North of Courcelette, in maintaining the line from Battery to O.P. in Kenora trench, under continually heavy shell fire being practically buried on three occasions. His devotion to duty was of the greatest value to the Battery.’

James Russell Coutts was born at St. Thomas, Ontario in 1890, and attested for the 15th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, at Toronto on 12 January 1915. He disembarked in the U.K. on 8 June 1915, and landed in France in September 1915. Awarded the Military Medal for his gallantry on 8 October 1916, he was wounded in action in November 1916, with gun shot wounds to both legs, and was discharged on 25 March 1919.

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