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Son of Catherine Christian (nee Hanlon), of Port Elgin, Ontario.
Military Medal, Supplememnt to the London Gazette dated 21 December 1916. British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Sergeant Arthur Minion Christian
The Military Medal, service medals and Memorial Cross awarded to Sjt. Arthur Minion Christian Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Citation for the Military Medal: For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on Sept.: 26th 1916. After the rest of his gun crew had been killed or wounded continued to carry out five orders alone under very heavy shell fire;-when reinforcements were sent up to take over the gun, he still remained, taking charge of the new crew through instructions has been sent that he might return. During the actions of September 26th and October 1st, and through out the full seven days that the Company was in the field he displayed the greatest capability in the handling of this gun crew and his behavior under exceptionally trying circumstances was most exemplary. (LG: 21-12-16) Sjt. Christian was killed in action at the battle of Passchendaele on October 24, 1917 serving with the 15th Coy. CMGC.
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Sergeant Arthur Minion Christian
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Sergeant Arthur Minion Christian
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Sergeant Arthur Minion Christian
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The Military Medal, service medals and Memorial Cross awarded to Sjt. Arthur Minion Christian Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Citation for the Military Medal: For conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on Sept.: 26th 1916. After the rest of his gun crew had been killed or wounded continued to carry out five orders alone under very heavy shell fire;-when reinforcements were sent up to take over the gun, he still remained, taking charge of the new crew through instructions has been sent that he might return. During the actions of September 26th and October 1st, and through out the full seven days that the Company was in the field he displayed the greatest capability in the handling of this gun crew and his behavior under exceptionally trying circumstances was most exemplary. (LG: 21-12-16) Sjt. Christian was killed in action at the battle of Passchendaele on October 24, 1917 serving with the 15th Coy. CMGC.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Page 216 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TYNE COT CEMETERY Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The cemetery itself lies 700 meters along the Tynecotstraat on the right hand side of the road.
Tyne Cot or Tyne Cottage was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. Three of these blockhouses still stand in the cemetery; the largest, which was captured on 4 October 1917 by the 3rd Australian Division, was chosen as the site for the Cross of Sacrifice by King George V during his pilgrimage to the cemeteries of the Western Front in Belgium and France in 1922.
The Tyne Cot Cemetery is now the resting-place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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