A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

Three: Private G. A. Frame, 10th (Canadians) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Festubert on 23 May 1915

1914-15 Star (1677 Pte. G. A. Frame, 10/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (1677 Pte. G. A. Frame, 10-Can. Inf.) good very fine (3) £140-180

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

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George Alexander Frame was born in Durness, Laing, Sutherlandshire, on 24 October 1891. Moving to Canada, where he became a Farmer near Winnipeg, he enlisted in the Local Canadian Militia, the 90th Winnipeg Rifles and with war declared was mobilised in September 1914. Subsequently transferred to the ‘10th Canadians’, he entered France in March 1915.

On 23 May 1915, during the battle of Festubert, Frame was wounded by shrapnel in the lower right leg and was taken prisoner - one of two officers and 26 other ranks of the Battalion to be captured, which lost 18 officers and 250 men in that hard fought battle.

Frame was held prisoner at the Marine Kriegslagerette Brugge and treated at the former Catholic Monastery at Paderborn before being sent to Kriegslagerette Munster and Stammlager Friedrichsfeld-bei-Wessel. After being interned in Holland in June 1918, he was repatriated to England on 18 November 1918. Then attached to the 21st Canadian Reserve Battalion, he married Mary Ellen Gilchrist Steele in Lanark in January 1919, prior to returning to Canada that March. He died in Minnipeg in May 1956; sold with copied service papers.