A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918 1161
A Great War Salonika operations D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel W. B. Hendry, Canadian Army Medical Corps
DISTINGUISHED SERVICEORDER, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 STAR (Lt. Col. W. B. Hendry, Can. A.M.C.); BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col. W. B. Hendry); JUBILEE 1935; CORONATION 1937; COLONIAL AUXILIARY FORCES DECORATION, G.V.R., silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1921, the reverse of the suspension crown officially inscribed, ‘Lt. Col. & Bt. Col. W. B. Hendry, D.S.O., 4th G.H., C.A.M.C.’, generally very fine or better (7) £1200-1400
D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June 1917.
William Belfry Hendry, who was born in Toronto in October 1874, was a pre-war Medical Officer in the Canadian Militia, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in March 1915.
Embarked for Salonika as a member of No. 4 Canadian General Hospital in late 1915, he remained actively employed in that theatre of war until returning to the U.K. in September 1917, in which period he was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel and C.O., awarded the D.S. O., and twice mentioned in despatches (London Gazettes 6 October 1916 and 21 July 1917 refer).
Advanced to the temporary rank of Colonel in the U.K. in December 1917, Hendry was discharged back in Ottawa in December 1919; sold with copied service record and confirmation of the recipient’s entitlement to the Jubilee 1935 and Coronation 1937 Medals.
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A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain E. J. Dickinson, Canadian Army Medical Corps, attached to the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (Capt. E. J. Dickinson); FRANCE, CROIX DE GUERRE 1914-1917, with star riband fitment, together with the recipient’s CANADIANMEMORIAL CROSS, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘Capt. E. J. Dickinson, M.C.’, good very fine or better (5)
£600-700 M.C. London Gazette 7 November 1918:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He attended to the wounded, both our own and those of the Allies, in a first-aid post close to the enemy lines under heavy fire and aircraft attacks. On two occasions enemy aircraft flying very low fired into the post, breaking the medicine bottles and causing casualties. He behaved with great coolness and courage, inspiring the men around him and keeping up the spirits of the wounded by his example.’
Elmer John Dickinson, who was born in Huntingdon, Quebec, in June 1887, was practising medicine in Manitoba at the time of his enlistment in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in May 1916.
Appointed a Captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he served in England until going out to France with an appointment in No. 2 Stationary Hospital in January 1918. But it was for his subsequent gallantry on attachment to 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade, from July 1918, that he was awarded his M.C. and the French Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 7 January 1919 refers).
Dickinson was twice gassed in the Mons sector in November 1918, as a result of which he was hospitalised in England until April 1919, but he never fully recovered, and died in South Africa in April 1924, where he had moved to enjoy the benefits of the climate; sold with copied service record and confirmation of the application for his Memorial Cross by his widow in July 1924.
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