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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 292

(x) Pair: W. D. McTavish, Canadian Army

Korea 1950-53, Canadian issue, silver (SC-6829 W. D. McTavish); U.N. Korea 1950-54 (SC-6829 W. D. McTavish), good very fine (2)

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Sold for
£75

Starting price
£30

Sale 19003 Notices
William Donald Mctavish born in 1929 in Easton's Corner, Ontario. Enlisted into the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps on 8 November 1950. Sent overseas to the Korea and Far East Campaigns on 26 July 1951 for one year, serving as a Private in the 25th Field Dressing Station (part of the 25th Canadian Field Ambulance) and also the 37th Canadian Field Ambulance. Released on 9 December 1953. On 8 January 1962 he served briefly as a Rifleman in his local unit the Brockville Rifles with new number C811533. He took part in one of the "National Survival Courses" which had recently been set up nationwide.