Pair: Private A. R. Bogart, 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 31 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (838018 Pte. A. R. Bogart 38-Can Inf) in flattened card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Albert Roy Bogart) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope and outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. Jennie Bogart, Box 885, Newmarket, Ont.’; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (838018 Pte. A. R. Bogart) in case of issue, with Minister of Militia and Defence enclosure, extremely fine (4) £200-£240

Jeffrey Hoare, September 2014.

Albert Roy Bogart was born in Newmarket, Ontario, on 25 September 1895 and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 27 November 1915. He served with the 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry during the Great War on the Western Front, and was mortally wounded by gunshot to his left arm on 30 October 1917. He died of his wounds at No. 2 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station the following day, and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Sold with original telegram to the recipient’s mother informing her that he had been wounded; Minister of Militia and Defence letter of condolence to the recipient’s mother, dated 10 November 1917; Mayor of Owen Sound, Ontario, letter of condolence to the recipient’s mother, dated 9 November 1917; Prime Minister’s letter to the recipient’s father regarding his C.W.G.C. grave, dated 24 September 1925; postcard from the recipient to his father from England; various photographs and postcard photographs of the recipient; various newspaper cuttings; and other ephemera.