Orders, Decorations and Medals

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed ‘18832 Pte. H. Trecy’, very fine £40-60

Henry Trecy was born in the parish of Cumberclaudy, Co. Derry, Ireland in April 1880 and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Edmonton, Alberta in September 1914. Posted to the 1st (Western Ontario) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, he was killed in action at Givenchy on 15 June 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, France.