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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 283

(x) Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel D. C. H. Francis, Royal Canadian Engineers

Canadian Voluntary Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue, silver; Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (ZL3193 D.C.H. Francis); Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea, unnamed as issued, gilded and silvered; U.N. Korea 1950-54 (ZL 3193 D. C. H. Francis); Confederation of Canada Centenary Medal 1967, unnamed as issued; Canadian Forces Decoration, E.II.R, with two additional award Bars (Maj D. C. H. Francis), mounted court-style as worn, cleaned, good very fine (7)

Dudley Cyril Harry Francis was born at Whitewood, Saskatchewan on 11 June 1927. He attested for No. 101 Field Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery on 5 July 1942 in the rank of Boy, before transferring to the Royal Canadian Engineers on 21 September 1948 and later obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan. After attending the Royal Canadian School of Engineering, Francis was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in March 1949 and later Commanded No. 2 Troop, 57 Independent Field Squadron, throughout the Korean War.

In August 1955 Francis was sent on exchange to the Royal Engineers School at Chatham, England, becoming Instructor of Roads and Airfields. In September 1964 he was appointed Military Engineering Adviser at Canadian Forces Heaquarters, Ottowa, and in August 1972 he was appointed Senior Staff Officer of Land Equipment and Standardisation at the Canadian Defence Liaison, Washington D.C. His Canadian Forces Decoration was announced in Army Order 692, though his Canadian Volunteer Service Medal was not awarded until 4 October 1992.

Sold with an unusual archive, comprising:

(i)
A full-length photograph of the recipient, with his cloth-backed Commission Certificate, dated 2 September 1949.

(ii)
A head and shoulders photograph of the recipient's wife, 2nd Lieutenant Barbara June Lelievre, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, in nursing uniform, with her cloth-bound Commission Certificate, dated 1 April 1953.

(iii)
Five wooden wall plaques belonging to the recipient, showing his service in various Royal Canadian Engineers units.

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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£130

Sale 19003 Notices
Sold with the recipient's Canadian Armed Forces Certificate of Service.