A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance of Sapper R. R. Drake, Canadian Engineers, who died of wounds on the Somme on 10 October 1916

Canadian Memorial Cross , G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘45269 Spr. R. R. Drake’, extremely 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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Reginald Robert Drake was born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, on 13 September 1883. A Carpenter by occupation, and having had previous military experience, he enlisted at Toronto in January 1915. Serving with the 3rd Field Company, Canadian Engineers, he died of wounds - gunshot wound abdomen, penetrating liver - at No. 12 General Hospital, Rouen, on 10 October 1916. Believed to have been wounded at the battle of Regina Trench, he was buried in the St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen. He was the son of George and Elizabeth Drake, of Freshwater, Isle of Wight, and the husband of Agnes Freda Drake of ‘The Gardens’, Shillingstone, Blandford, Dorset to whom he was married in January 1916; sold with copied service papers.