An unusual medals sale has led to an unusual outcome, writes Tom Derbyshire.
An application is to be made to export from Canada the Victoria Cross group won by heroic Lieutenant Colonel David Currie after it was bought by a British private collector.
Although the sale was held in London by Dix Noonan Webb, it was conducted in Canadian dollars, and the medals remain in Canada where they have been since the vendor bought them from Currie’s widow Isabel in 1989.