A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance of Private A. C. Heathorn, 29th (Vancouver) Battalion - “Tobin’s Tigers”, who was killed in action on 19 April 1916

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘75987 Pte. A. C. Heathorn’, good very fine £80-100

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

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Arthur Charles Heathorn was born in Victoria, B.C., on 15 April 1892. A Glassworker by occupation, he enrolled in Vancouver, B.C. in November 1914, and was reported as ‘Missing’ - later killed - on 19 April 1916, during the battle of the craters at St. Eloi, in the Ypres Salient. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. He was the son of Arthur and Priscilla Heathorn of Vancouver; sold with copied service and other papers.