A 13Th Battalion Memorial Cross - April 8Th 1917 Hold on March 11

on March 11

awarded in 1943

PEEKHAUS BERLIN" and maker marked "JFS"

but did not enter the European theatre

the Order moved to the town of Tomar

A 13Th Battalion Memorial Cross - April 8Th 1917 Hold on March 11A 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