1914-15 Star (LT. F.L. HENDERSON. 18/CAN:INF:); British War Medal (CAPT. F.L. HENDERSON.); Victory Medal (CAPT. F.L. HENDERSON.); War Medal 1939-45; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; Jubilee Medal `935 unnamed as awarded.
Frederick Lewis Henderson was born at Hamilton, Ontario on 29 April 1894. A broker in civilian life, he was a pre-war Officer of Hamilton's 91st Regiment of the Canadian Militia. With the outbreak of the Great War he joined the 19th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force on 13 November 1914 and sailed for England on 13 May 1915 , and from there to France on 14 September 1915. Henderson was badly wounded in action on 15 September 1916 after the Battalion went into the trenches near Courcelette on the Somme, losing his right eye from shrapnel penetration. After a Medical Board he was invalided back to Canada in early 1917 and was struck off strength in May 1917.
Henderson remained in service in Canada and went on to command the successor to his pre-War unit, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada from 2 January 1931-1 October 1934. He was also awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration in 1931 and the Jubilee Medal in 1935.
He died in Windsor, Essex, Ontario on 3 December 1970 at the age of 76.
Medals are in good condition unless indicated otherwise. Sold with excerpts from his Canadian personnel file.
