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Sold on 19 September 2013

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A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

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№ 497

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19 September 2013

Hammer Price:
£110

A Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance of Private Alfred Clarke, Royal Canadian Dragoons, who died of wounds on 26 September 1916

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘550124 Pte. A. Clarke’, nearly very fine £70-90

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

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Alfred Clarke was born in Toronto on 31 October 1894. A Bushman by occupation, he attested for the Royal Canadian Dragoons at Toronto in February 1916 and died of wounds at the 3rd Canadian Field Ambulance on 26 September 1916.