WWI Canadian Vimy Photograph Album Auction first shooting the Boer who

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otherwise near very fine

Hallmarked Da Costa on reverse

Grenadier Guards

the other illustrates Crerar seated with a bureaucrat delivering a speech to his left and an older gentleman to the far left

WWI Canadian Vimy Photograph Album Auction first shooting the Boer whoWWI Canadian Vimy Photograph Album Containing 44 Original Photographs Importantly, the first photo of the lot is that of the initial field grave of Sergeant John William Peter Melvin who was killed April 7th 1917, likely by enemy bombardment, in the Vimy section while with the 2nd Canadian Railway Troops preparing for the Vimy assult. The remaining 43 Canadian photographs depict scenes in Canada in fresh uniforms, aboard ship heading overseas,