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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 118

(x) A 1918 M.M. group of three awarded to Private J. Hornsby, 28th Battalion (Northwest) Saskatchewan Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who also suffered a bayonet wound to the hand at Arras

Military Medal, G.V.R. (886484 Pte. J. Hornsby. 28/Sask: R.); British War and Victory Medals (886484 Pte. J. Hornsby. 28-Can. Inf.), mounted as worn, good very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 29 August 1918.

James Horsby was born at Kyle, Saskatchewan on 24 December 1893 and was a farmer by trade upon his enlisting into the 188th (Saskatchewan) Battalion at Prince Albert on 18 March 1916.

Transferred to the 28th Battalion on 3 January 1917, he served on the Western Front from 13 January 1917. During the course of his career, he suffered from influenza, November 1916, pyrexia of unknown origin, 5 May 1917, trench fever, 18 May 1917 and a bayonet wound to the left hand at Arras on 5 May 1918. Hornsby added the M.M. to his laurels by the end of the Great War.

His full Service Record is available via: central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B4506-S029

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£380

Starting price
£240