the panels are rolled up and secured in place with dual pebbled magnetic metal buttons on the right flap meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left flap
He would recuperate here for the next week
the obverse bearing a lengthy handwritten inscription from Kriegs-Lazarettabteilung XIX
The crown is fully surrounded by a layer of heavy fur
01 mm (w) x 60
Canada, CEF. A First War British War Medal to Pte. Gault, CSEF United Republic of the panels are rolled upIn silver, full size, rim impressed 3136030 PTE B. T. GAULT C. S. E. F., light wear, lovely patina, very fine. Footnote: Basil Thompson Gault was born in Watford, Lambton County, Ontario in November 1895. He was drafted into the First War in May 1918, and in Siberia with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He suffered from influenza in October 1918. He arrived in Siberia on January 15, 1919. Gault was later hospitalized for tonsillitis on April 4 1919,