A Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance of Private C. E. Johnson, 31st (Alberta) Battalion, who was killed in action in the Third Battle of Ypres on 20 July 1917

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘636103 Pte. C. E. Johnson’, very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Cyrus Earl Johnson was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, on 19 March 1895. A Farmer by occupation, he enlisted into the 175th Battalion at Medicine Hat in February 1916, but was serving with the 31st (Alberta) Battalion when he was killed in action on 29 July 1917, while serving in the Laurent Section during the Third Battle of Ypres. The Battalion’s regimental history records, ‘On Sunday morning, 29 July, the enemy bombarded the Battalion position with trench mortar gas shells, killing one man and incapacitating two others.’ Johnson was buried in the Fosse No. 10 Communal Cemetery Extension, Sains-en-Gohelle; sold with copied service and other papers.