Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. W. Sheen, Canadian Mounted Rifles and 2nd Canadian Tunnelling Company, who died of suffocation when a fire broke out in one of the galleries of a mine at Mount Sorrel, 14 February 1917

1914-15 Star (118044 Pte A. W. Sheen. 3/Can: Mtd: Rif:); British War and Victory Medals (118044 Pte. A. W. Sheen. 1-C.M.R.) 2nd initial officially corrected on BWM, generally good very fine (3) £80-£120

Alfred William Sheen was born in Richmond Barracks, Dublin, Ireland in October 1879. He was a coal miner prior to the war, having also served with the Royal Engineers. Sheen served with the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles, before being attached to the 2nd Canadian Tunnelling Company. Private Sheen was killed on the Western Front, when he died from suffocation as a result of a fire breaking out in one of the galleries of a mine at Mount Sorrel, about 10.40pm, 14 February 1917. He is buried in Maple Copse Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.