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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 358

The Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private H. D. Maxwell, 20th (1st Central Ontario) Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Military Medal, G.V.R. (916701 Pte. H. D. Maxwell. 20/Bn: 1/C.Ont: R.); British War and Victory Medals (916701 Pte. H. D. Maxwell. 20-Can. Inf.), very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

Herbert Daniel Maxwell was born on 30 April 1883 at Pengtang, Ontario, the son of Hannah Maxwell. A carpenter by trade, he attested at Toronto for the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 18 April 1916 and arrived at Liverpool on 7 April 1917. Posted to the 20th Battalion at Witley Camp, Maxwell served in France from 1 March 1918-6 April 1919, before returning to Canada on 13 May 1919 and being discharged 11 days later. He died on 13 November 1960; sold with copied service papers.


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£420

Starting price
£170