Auction Catalogue

31 March 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 360

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£140

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (362203 Pte. E. H. Lingard) nearly extremely fine £50-70

Private Edward Herbert Lingard, 4th Company Canadian Machine Gun Corps, attached 180th Battalion, was killed in action on 16 August 1917, aged 27 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.

He was the son of William and Hannah Lingard of London and the husband of Edith H. Lingard of 130 Uxbridge Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.