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Sold on 19 September 2013

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A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

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№ 627

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19 September 2013

Hammer Price:
£85

A Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance of Private D. B. Adams, 14th (Royal Montreal Regiment) Battalion, who was killed in action on 3 June 1916

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘448002 Pte. D. Adams’, very fine £80-100

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David Brown Adams was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 3 June 1881. A Glass Worker by trade, he enlisted in the C.E.F. in June 1915 and was posted to the 14th Battalion, with whom he was serving when killed in action on 3 June 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. He was the son of Lilias Brown Adams and the late Archibald Adams, of 12 North Street, Anderston, Glasgow; sold with copied service papers.