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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 359

A Great War M.M. awarded to Corporal R. H. Elliott, East Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who was later discharged on account of a wound suffered in action

Military Medal, G.V.R. (63613 Cpl. R. H. Elliott. 2/E.Ont: R.), traces of lacquer, very fine

M.M. London Gazette 21 January 1919.

Robert Herman Elliott was born on 19 February 1892 at Hungerford, Tweed, Ontario, the son of James and Elizabeth Elliott. A mail clerk by occupation, Elliott attested for the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Tweed on 29 December 1915, joining the 155th Battalion and arriving in England aboard the S.S. Northland on 28 October 1916. Taken on strength at Bramshott on 9 December 1916, Elliott served with the 1st Battalion, East Ontario Regiment, from 6 August 1917, joining the 2nd Battalion three months later. Appointed Lance Corporal on 18 March 1918, he was wounded in action on 9 August 1918 suffering a shrapnel wound which necessitated transfer to hospital at Le Treport and on to No. 4 Canadian General Hospital at Basingstoke:

'3" gaping wound upper right arm, 6" below shoulder on the deltoid. Clean and healthy. No bone.'

An x-ray noted a number of small pieces of metal scattered around the upper end of the shaft of the right humerus and it was only on 25 October 1918 that Elliott was discharged fit for duty. He returned home to Tweed soon thereafter, being discharged at Kingston on 24 January 1919; sold with copied service record.


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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£130