Memorial Cross to "Lt Arthur Lodge Lindsay" from the Ypres battlefield of WW I. It has battle damage with shrapnel and bullet holes. It is double numbered with 1987.004.002. Lt Arthur Lodge Lindsay was an officer in the 16th Battalion, CEF who was a former member of the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders in Vancouver. He joined the 16th at Valcartier on 22 September, 1914 and was killed at Ypres (St. Julien) on 22 April, 1915. He was initially a platoon commander in "E" (Seaforth) Company under Captain Fleming and later in No. 2 (Seaforth) Company under Captain Rae in France. CEF Service File attached. From The History of the 16th Battalion, CEF, pages 64, 65: " [Speaking of the Ypres battlefield] To any who had the will to look a scene of startling contrasts met the eye. War had then scarcely touched this corner of the Salient. Spring's green fields and blossoming hedges lay basking in the warmth of the April morning sun. FN FN: The following description of the same area was written in 1920: "Leaving the road and picking my way through the mire to a patch ablaze with poppies and charlock, I gathered many of these. Close by I noticed a mound, at the head of which was erected a small cross bearing the inscription 'Erected to the memory of Arthur Lodge Lindsay and other members of the 16th Battalion, the Canadian Scottish, who fell in this vicinity, April 23rd, 1915."