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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 8

(x) A Great War 'Western Front' M.B.E. Group of Three to Major J.H. Slayter, Canadian Army Medical Corps
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Member's (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver (Hallmarks for London 1918)
b) British War and Victory Medals (Major J.H. Slayter.), toned, extremely fine, together with a large file of copied research (3)

M.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Slayter, T./Capt. John Howard, C.A.M.C.

Captain John Howard Slayter, M.B.E., born Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, June 1865; Commissioned Captain, Canadian Army Medical Corps, 24.9.1917; served during the Great War on the Western Front as Chief of Medical Division No. 10, Canadian General Hospital; promoted Major, 29.5.1919; relinquished his Commission, 21.11.1919; died in Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia, Canada, 8.1.1926. His son, Rear-Admiral William Rudolph Slayter, C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C., served alongside him in the Great War, and was awarded the D.S.C.

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