Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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.