A Canada General Service Medal To Ridgeway Veteran; Colour Sergeant Robert Bain Hold with paper tag printed in

with paper tag printed in red ink and stapled to the prong bar

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RAF airmen arriving at Takoradi on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) had heard the expression "The White Man's Grave"

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1919 (CAPT

A Canada General Service Medal To Ridgeway Veteran; Colour Sergeant Robert Bain Hold with paper tag printed inFENIAN RAID 1866 (Cr. Sgt. R. Bain, 2nd. Q. O. R.). Naming is impressed. On original silk ribbon, pleasing dark patina, extremely fine. Footnote: Colour Sergeant Robert Bain is shown on the roll of the 373 man 2nd Battalion and is listed on page 60 of the "Canada General Service Medal Roll, 1866 70" by John Thyen. He is acknowledged has having been in action at the Battle of Ridgeway on June 2, 1866 with the Queen's Own Rifles. (C: 14)