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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 705

(x) A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Company Sergeant-Major (Warrant Officer Class 2) W. Massie, 102nd (Northern British Columbia) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who was wounded by gunshot to the head during the Battle of Vimy Ridge

Military Medal, G.V.R. (703556 Sjt: W. Massie. 102/Can: Inf:); British War and Victory Medals (703556 W.O.Cl.2. W. Massie 102-Can. Inf.), mounted as worn, good very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 9 July 1917.

William Massie was born at Aberdeen, Scotland on 25 March 1883 and was a rancher living at Vernon, British Columbia by the outbreak of the Great War. He sailed for France with his unit on 18 June 1916 and suffered a gunshot wound to the head on 10 April 1917 during the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£210