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Canada General Service Medal to a Major

Price: $1475.00

An important Canada General Service Medal, Bar Fenian Raid named to Major M.B Daly 2nd Bde. M.A. (Militia Artillery). Daly who was born in Quebec City in 1836 would go on to be elected to the House of Commons for two terms and was the 7th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. He would eventually receive the Knights Commanderof the Order of St. Michael and St. George in January of 1900. Page 188 of Thyen confirms his rank of Major and issue of the 1866 Fenian Raid bar. An interesting CGSM to a prominent Nova Scotia politician.