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Canada. A Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, Black Watch

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Canada. A Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, Black Watch

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Canada. A Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, Black Watch

Canada; A Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration to a First War Canadian Veteran, Major Frederick William Fishwick Whitehead, 5th Regiment, Royal Highlanders of Canada (The Black Watch); Gilt and frosted silver, engraved "Major F.W.F. WHITEHEAD Black Watch of C." on the reverse, 35.5 mm (w) x 65.5 mm (h), original ribbon, extremely fine.

Footnote: Frederick William Fishwick Whitehead was born on January 6, 1893 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a resident of Montreal, Quebec when he signed his Officers' Declaration Paper as a Lieutenant, with the 1st Depot Battalion, 1st Quebec Regiment, on October 10, 1917 in Montreal, naming his next-of-kin as his mother, Mrs. K.M.M. Whitehead of Montreal, stating that he had four years and 8 months' service with an active militia, the 5th Regiment, Royal Highlanders of Canada (The Black Watch), that his religion was Church of England and that his occupation was that of Banker. He would survive the war and later advance to the rank of Major, receiving the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.