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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 368

The Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private N. Hensen, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who was also gassed on the Western Front

Military Medal, G.V.R. (524068 Pte. H. Henson. Can: A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (524068 Pte. H. Henson. C.A.M.C.), very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 21 January 1919.

Herbert Hensen (or Henson) was born on 25 April 1880 at Northamptonshire, England, the son of Alice Hensen of 2417 Victoria Avenue, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. A labourer by trade, he attested at Camp Hughes for the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 31 July 1916, his papers noting 13 months of service with the Manitoba Rangers. Posted to the Canadian Army Medical Corps, Henson arrived in England aboard the S.S. Olympic on 26 December 1916, being posted to France in February 1917 and attached to the 4th Field Ambulance on 10 March 1917.

Sentenced to 5 days field punishment No. 1 for being absent without leave on 2 February 1918, Henson was later wounded by a gas shell on 14 September 1918 and evacuated to hospital in Cardiff. He recovered and was discharged at Camp Hughes on 8 April 1919, returning home to his wife Alice and three children; sold with copied service record and C.A.M.C. War Diary.


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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£140