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Auction: 26002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 94

The very rare Military General Service Medal awarded to Driver H. Tome, Militia Artillery, Select Embodied Militia of Lower Canada

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Chateauguay, Chrystler's Farm (H . Tome, Canadn. Militia.), toned, sometime cleaned with scratches over naming, very fine

Provenance:
Recorded for sale in 1976.

Confirmed by Archives Canada (RG 9 IIA5, refers) and The Military General Service Roll as a 2-clasp award. This may well be a unique combination of clasps as the award to Sergeant Therien notes 'may be two men of the same name, each with a single clasp Medal'.

Hugh Tome was a native of Barnston.

At the Battle of Chateauguay on 26 October 1813, an outnumbered force of British, Canadian, and native warriors - commanded by the renowned Lieutenant-Colonel Charles-Michel de Salaberry - defeated a superior force of American troops attempting to invade Lower Canada and attack Montreal.

The Battle of Crystler's Farm was fought on 11 November 1813 as part of the Saint Lawrence Campaign during the War of 1812. The Canadian Militia was part of the 800 British forces present for the Battle alongside British regular troops and aboriginal warriors. The British/Canadian forces were victorious despite being great outnumbered by the Americans, who numbered approximately 4000, with the victory successfully ending the American threat to Montreal.

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Estimate
£10,000 to £14,000

Starting price
£10000