Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (A. E. Shaw) in original card envelope, and outer transmission envelope, named to Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Shaw, and addressed to ‘Mrs. Katherine Shaw, 1415, 7th St., W., Calgary, Alberta’, extremely fine £100-£140

Alfred Ernest Shaw was commissioned Lieutenant in the 3rd Prince of Wales’ Canadian Dragoons on 1 March 1902 and served with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 3 June 1916; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Sold with the recipient’s original Commission Document, dated 4 February 1905; three Certificates of Military Instruction; Musketry Certificate; and a portrait photograph of the recipient.