A 13Th Battalion Memorial Cross - April 8Th 1917 Hold Ordnance Staff

Ordnance Staff

on March 11

seeing service in the Western Atlantic in 1914

but did not enter the European theatre

which displays a flared bow and overall beautiful moire

A 13Th Battalion Memorial Cross - April 8Th 1917 Hold Ordnance StaffA Canadian Memorial Cross awarded in remembrance of Private W. C. Hawkings, 13th (Royal Highlanders of Canada) Battalion, who was killed in action on Vimy Ridge on 8 April 1917 Canadian Memorial Cross, G. V. R., the reverse officially inscribed, 24724 Pte. W. C. Hawkings, good very fine. Footnote: William Charles Hawkings was born in Wellington, Somerset, on 30 June 1881. A Teamster by occupation and a member of the Royal Highlanders of Canada, he