Lot Archive

Lot

№ 827

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29 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£130

Three: Corporal E. W. Love, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regiment), killed in action at the capture of Regina Trench by the 5th Canadian Brigade on 1st October 1916

1914-15 Star (106371 L. Cpl., 1/Can: Mtd: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals (106371 Cpl., 1-C.M.R.) extremely fine (3) £40-50

Edgar William Love enlisted at York on 22 December 1914. He was killed in action on 1 October 1916, and is buried in Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France.

Regina Trench was a German work, captured for a time by the 5th Canadian Brigade on 1st October 1916; attacked again by the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions on the 8th October; taken in part by the 18th and 4th Canadian Divisions on the 21st October; and finally cleared by the 4th Canadian Division on the 11th November 1916.