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Auction: 25002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 187

A Great War M.S.M. group of five awarded to Private C. Joy, Eastern Ontario Regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry & Imperial Yeomanry

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (23345 Pte. C. Joy. 39th Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (1594 Pte. C. Joy. P.P.C.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (1594 Pte. C. Joy. P.P.C.L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (1594 Pte. C. Joy. E. Ont: R.), good very fine (5)

M.S.M. London Gazette 18 January 1919.

Charles Joy was born at Crewkerne, Somerset in September 1870 and was a butcher by trade. He served in the 39th (Berkshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War. With the outbreak of the Great War, he enlisted into the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at Ottawa in August 1914 and served with them overseas. Joy was discharged in May 1919; sold together with a Peace Token.

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Sold for
£2,500

Starting price
£240