Lot Archive

Lot

№ 819

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£150

Three: Lance-Corporal G. W. Jenden, 21st Battalion Canadian Infantry

1914-15 Star (59507 Pte., 21/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (59507 L. Col., 21-Can. Inf.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140

Lance-Corporal George Walter Jenden, 21st Battalion Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 15 August 1917, aged 26 years. having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial. He was the son of Mrs Mary Jane Jenden of Wadhurst, Sussex.