Item #C4042
British War Medal (425496 A.L. CPL. R.C. WILSON. C.M.R.); Victory Medal (425496 A.L. CPL. R.C. WILSON. C.M.R.); and Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, George V (R.Q.M.S. ( W.O. Cl. 2) R.C. WILSON 12 DNS.). Naming is officially impressed. Mounted to a suspension with swing bar pinback, as worn by the veteran, semi-dark patinas on the silver medals, spotting on the VM, light contact, very fine.
Footnote: Rowley Calvert Wilson was born on January 8, 1892 in Deuhollam, Ontario. He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (425496) on January 8, 1915, his twenty-third birthday, at Minnedosa, Manitoba, naming his next-of-kin as C.W. Wilson of Minedosa, stating that he had no previous military service, that he was not married and that his trade was that of Brakeman with the Canadian Pacific Railway. He survived the war. Wilson received the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal by G.O. 64 in 1932 while with the 12th Dragoons.