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Online Auction 14  7-8 Mar 2022
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Lot 1079

Starting price: 65 USD
Price realized: 65 USD
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CANADA: George V, 1910-1936, AR medal (33.11g), 1918, Barac-159 (Great Britain), 36mm silver medal, The War Medal, bust of George V left with GEORGIVS V BRITT. OMN: REX ET IND: IMP: around // nude male on high-stepping horse with hoof on shield, skull and crossbones at left bottom, and "1914 - 1918" around with sun above, with silver hanger (no ribbon), lightly cleaned, light attractive reverse tone, "1045878 PTE M C EVANS 15- CAN INF (15th Canadian Infantry)" on edge, Unc, ex Joe Sedillot Collection. The 6th Canadian Infantry Division was an infantry division of the Canadian Army, formed in 1942 during the Second World War. It was attached to Pacific Command. The division had a brigade sent to the Aleutian Islands Campaign, particularly at Kiska, but never saw action. The 6th Division was to have been part of a proposed Commonwealth Corps, formed for a planned invasion of Japan, but was disbanded in 1945, after the war was ended by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Estimate: 80-120 USD
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