Lot 449
A ROYAL SCOTS ' NORTH RUSSIA' MEMORIAL PLAQUE.
A carved Oak frame Memorial Plaque or Widows Penny' named to Francis Robert Hale.
66111 Corporal F R Hale served in the 2/10th Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment. Commemorated on the Archangel Memorial, he is one of 221 men who fell in the White (North) Russia Campaign, who have no known grave. He had been previously wounded whilst serving in France.
Aged 23 years, the son of Frank and Alice Hale of 42 Greenheys Road, Wallasey, Cheshire. He was Killed in Action on the 10th October 1918.
In the operations the Battalion raised in Linlithgow in 1914 (for Coastal Defence) and rendered as 'Fit only for garrison duty' in June 1918, duly arrived in Russia from Ireland in August 1918. Among American, Canadian, Australian, French and Italian troops, they won the Battle Honour Archangel 1918-19.
In the skirmishes and actions in the Russian Campaign, they suffered 132 fatalities. Known photographs show them marching through Archangel also those of their Comrades Funerals.
