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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.

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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 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 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 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 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 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)

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. With a full set of Canadian service papers, copy newspaper cutting and CWG records.

£495

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 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.
£495

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.