A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces

Three: Acting Lance-Sergeant A. E. Petrie, 10th (Canadians) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, late Suffolk Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (2411 Pte. A. E. Petrie, 1st Suffolk Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (231503 A.L. Sjt. A. E. Petrie, 10-Can. Inf.), together with an Army Temperance Association India Medal, for One Years Abstinence (A.T.A. I.2), with an ‘Excelsior’ top bar, unnamed, first with edge bruise, very fine and better (4) £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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Albert Edward Petrie was born in Gosport on 3 November 1868, and prior to moving to Canada he served for 13 years in the Suffolk Regiment and saw service in the Boer War. Living in Edmonton, he enlisted as a Bugler into the 202nd (Sportsman’s) Battalion in May 1916, arrived in England aboard the Mauretania in November 1916, and proceeded to France in May 1917, where he joined the ‘10th Canadians’.

In October 1917 he developed a hernia after digging trenches and attempting to lift a 60lb. shell and was invalided back to England for treatment. And, on account of his age and general debility, he was returned to Canada in February 1918, when he was discharged as medically unfit. He died on 20 February 1948; sold with copied service papers.