Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War Memorial Plaque awarded to Trooper L. Cartier, 11th Canadian Mounted Rifles

Memorial Plaque (Lewis Cartier) in card envelope of issue; Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (116005 Pte. L. Cartier) in box of issue; with Memorial Scroll (Trooper Lewis Cartier Canadian Light Horse) last in O.H.M.S. transmittal tube addressed to ‘Mrs J. Cartier, 38 Brockley Rd, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent, England’, with 9ct gold locket which is glazed with photographs of recipient in uniform and his wife, generally good very fine (lot) (3) £140-£180

Lewis Cartier was born in Harrison Mills, British Columbia, Canada in November 1894. He was the son of Levi Cartier of the same town, and husband of Jessie Cartier, of 38 Brockley Roadd, Cliftonville, Margate, England. Cartier served during the Great War as a Trooper with the 11th Canadian Mounted Rifles on the Western Front, and died after the war of related injuries/illness, 20 March 1920. He is buried in Chilliwack (St. Thomas) Anglican Little Mountain Cemetery, British Columbia.