Memorial Plaque (John Edward Crane) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, and outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. Hilma Crane, 118 Arundel Avenue, Toronto, Ont.’, extremely fine £60-£80

John Edward Crane was born in Leicester on 11 March 1892 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Toronto on 4 November 1915. Posted to the Canadian Mounted Rifles, he served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 9 August 1918. He is buried in Caix British Cemetery, France.

Sold together with a photograph of the recipient’s Imperial War Graves Commission wooden cross and related correspondence; the recipient’s Canadian Expeditionary Force Death Certificate; and Minister of National Defence enclosure.