Canada. A Memorial Cross To The 11Th Field Ambulance, Kia June 1917 Auction Archive round badge

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1881 in Toronto

and as such escaped the post-war recognition bestowed upon those larger regiments suffering greater numbers of combined battlefield and health related deaths

thus becoming a "cause celebre" of the peacetime Navy

Canada. A Memorial Cross To The 11Th Field Ambulance, Kia June 1917 Auction Archive round badgeA Memorial Cross to the 11th Field Ambulance; June 1917 Memorial Cross, George V. (910920 Pte. S. HANSON). Naming is officially engraved, hallmark is partially obscured, very fine. Case is hinged, fine condition. Sold with a copy of his Attestation Paper. Footnote: Samuel Hanson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England on October 2, 1891. He signed his Attestation Paper on March 22, 1916 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and listed his trade as Bookkeeper.