An Emotive & Desirable CANADIAN MEMORIAL CROSS & PAIR
To:
406671, Cpl A.F. BEST, 8th Field Company, Canadian Engineers.
KILLED IN ACTION, 16th July 1916.
From Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
An original & officially boxed Memorial Cross with its classic purple ribbon & memorial card.
Awarded to an early Canadian Somme Casualty.
Cpl Archibald Frank Best was killed in action on 16th July 1916 by a German rifle grenade whilst taking part in trench construction on the Somme. He was 32 and the son of Edwin & Grace Best of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Cpl Best rests in eternal honour at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground.(Transport Farm)
With a full set of Canadian service papers, copy newspaper cutting and CWG records.
£495
An original & officially boxed Memorial Cross with its classic purple ribbon & memorial card.
Awarded to an early Canadian Somme Casualty.
Cpl Archibald Frank Best was killed in action on 16th July 1916 by a German rifle grenade whilst taking part in trench construction on the Somme. He was 32 and the son of Edwin & Grace Best of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Cpl Best rests in eternal honour at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground.(Transport Farm)
With a full set of Canadian service papers, copy newspaper cutting and CWG records.
£495