Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

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

Lot

№ 892

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£75

Canadian Memorial Cross , G.V.R. (401280 Pte. S. Heather); together with an erased 1914-15 Star, the two mounted in an oval glass-fronted case, good very fine (2) £40-50

Samuel Heather, son of Samuel and Mary Heather of London and husband of Frances Heather of Chatham, Ontario, was killed in action, serving with the 1st Battalion Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment), on 26 April 1916, aged 43 years. He was buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ieper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.