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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 253

Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R. (436725 Pte. G. Fazan), good very fine

Gordon Fazan served as a Private with the 49th (Edmonton) Battalion, Canadian Infantry. This Battalion landed in France on 9 October 1915, fighting at Mount Sorrel in the Ypres Salient in June 1916. It then marched south to join the Somme Offensive. Fazan was killed on 31 August 1916, aged 31 and is buried at the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, grave VIII. B. 170b. On his gravestone is the inscription:

'Here I am, for thou didst call' (1 Samuel 3:5).

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