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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 521

(x) Six: Lieutenant-Colonel F. L. Henderson, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, late 19th Canadian Infantry

1914-15 Star (Lieut: F. L. Henderson. 19/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. L. Henderson.); War and Canadian Voluntary Service Medals 1939-45, silver issues; Jubilee 1935, very fine (6)

Frederick Lewis Henderson was born at Hamilton, Ontario on 29 April 1894. A broker in civilian life, he was a pre-war Officer of Hamilton's 91st Regiment of the Canadian Militia. With the outbreak of the Great War he joined the 19th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force on 13 November 1914. Henderson was badly wounded in action on 15 September 1916 after the Battalion went into the trenches near Courcelette on the Somme, losing his right eye. Eventually invalided back to Canada in early 1917 and was struck off strength in May 1917.

Henderson remained in service in Canada and went on to command the successor to his pre-War unit, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada from 2 January 1931-1 October 1934. He was also awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration in 1931.

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£190

Starting price
£140