A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

A Memorial Plaque awarded in remembrance of Private T. Austin, 31st (Alberta) Battalion, who died back in Canada in October 1918 after being severely wounded in the head at Passchendaele

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Therman Austin), good very fine £40-60

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

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Therman Austin was born in Oklahoma, Missaouri, U.S.A., on 9 June 1892. Enlisting in the 89th (Alberta) Battalion at Calgary in November 1915, he was serving with the 31st (Alberta) Battalion when wounded on 6 November 1917 during the battle of Passchendaele - a rifle bullet causing a serious wound to the neck and fracturing his jaw on the right side and destroying most of his teeth on that side. Invalided back to Canada, he died of influenza and bronchial pneumonia at Calgary on 26 October 1918. Buried in the Calgary Union Cemetery, he was the son of Mrs. Mary E. Austin, of 202 Alberta Loan Building, Calgary; sold with copied service papers.