Auction Catalogue

4 December 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 232

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4 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£140

U.N. Cyprus, unnamed, extremely fine, together with related Canadian Memorial Cross, E.II.R., the reverse officially impressed to ‘450-516-232 D. R. Krieger(2) £80-120

Sold with a series of photographs of the Canadian Contingent Memorial at Nicosia and copied obituary from the Ric-A-Dam-Doo, the journal of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, which includes a portrait photograph.

Donald R. Krieger was born at Welland, Ontario, in April 1955 and enlisted in the Canadian Army at Winnipeg in July 1973. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, he served on United Nations duties in Cyprus from April until August 1976, in which latter month he was killed in a military vehicle accident at Goshi. Krieger, whose name is commemorated on the Canadian Contingent Memorial at Nicosia, is buried in the Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg.