Leather Holster for a .45 Colt automatic pistol with two magazine pockets and shoulder sling. The holster was carried by Lt Col Frank Albro Creighton, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Chevalier (France) in WW I. He was killed in action (died of wounds) on 19 June 1916 with the 1st Battalion, CEF. He is buried in grave VI.A.26 at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. He lived in Winnipeg before the War and served in then Corps of Guides. He enlisted in the 1st Battalion as a lieutenant in 1914. CEF service file attached. Lt Col Creighton was the son of Thomas Grassie Creighton and Avis Rebecca Creighton, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; husband of Rosalie Creighton, of 11 Lancaster Apartments, Winnipeg. (Ref. www.cwgc.org) In his birthplace of Dartmouth, NS, there is an Albro Lake and Creighton Park Elementary School named after him. The 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion was created on 2 September 1914 with recruits from "Military District 1" (Western Ontario). The battalion arrived in England on 14 October 1914 with a strength of 45 officers and 1121 men. The battalion became part of the 1st Canadian Division, 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade where it saw action at Ypres and along the Western Front.