Auction Catalogue

2 April 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 235

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£310

Pair: Private D. McKay, Royal Canadian Regiment, who was killed in action at the “Chalk Pits”, near Albert on 1 October 1916

British War and Victory Medals
(228218 Pte., R.C.R.), with related Memorial Plaque (David McKay) and Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., officially inscribed, ‘228218 Pte. D. McKay’, extremely fine (4) £300-350

David McKay was born at Dundee, Scotland in July 1887 and enlisted in the 13th Canadian Mounted Rifles at Calgary in April 1916, stating previous military service in the 48th Highlanders of Canada (Militia).

Arriving in France in August of the same year, he was posted to the Royal Canadian Regiment and was killed in action at the “Chalk Pits”, near Albert on 1 October 1916.

He was interred in the Albert Communal Cemetery; photographs of his headstone are included.