Canada. An Efficiency Decoration to Major Herbert (Peter) Denis-Nathan; Highland Light Infantry of Canada

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Canada. An Efficiency Decoration to Major Herbert (Peter) Denis-Nathan; Highland Light Infantry of Canada

ERII with Canada suspension bar (MAJOR H. DENIS-NATHAN.). Naming is officially impressed on the reverse. Original ribbon, scattered gilt wear, light contact, better than very fine.

Footnote: Herbert Denis-Nathan was born in King William’s Town, South Africa in 1908. He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and came to Canada in 1930, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario, and teaching qualifications from the Ontario College of Education. Denis-Nathan served with the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, along with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on September 17, 1940. He is acknowledged as a Captain (Acting Major) with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps in the Supplement to the London Gazette 37340 of Thursday, November 8, 1945, page 5459 and was later awarded the Efficiency Decoration. After the war, he taught at Galt Collegiate and Vocational School, where he became vice-principal, retiring in 1970. He served on the boards of the Ontario Pioneer Community Foundation, the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation from 1981 and is a member of the Waterloo County Hall of Fame. He was chairman of the Wellington-Waterloo Branch of the Chemical Institute of Canada, president of the Waterloo Historical Society and a director of the Ontario Educational Association. He received the Award of Merit from the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation. Denis-Nathan died in 1989.