Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private R. F. Reid, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal, in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, in silver, good very fine or better, together with related Canadian Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially engraved, ‘L. 106103 Pte. R. F. Reid’ (6) £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Robert Francis Reid was born at Arrow River, Manitoba, in November 1924 and enlisted at Regina in May 1943. Following basic training in Canada, he was drafted to the 2nd Canadian Infantry Reinforcement Unit in the U.K. and thence to Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Italy in February 1944. Killed in action in the preliminary battle for the Hitler Line, Reid was buried at the Cassino War Cemetery.