Eight: Warrant Officer Class 2 J. W. Biltcliffe, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914 Star, with copy clasp (5911 Sjt., 1/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (5911 W.O. Cl.2, K.R. Rif. C.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (6837106 W.O. Cl.II, K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (683106 W.O. Cl. 2, K.R.R.C.), mounted as worn, good very fine (8) £320-360

M.S.M. awarded by Army Order 98 of 1953.

James W. Biltcliffe, from Thornhill, Dewsbury, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war, as a Serjeant in the 1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, on 13 August 1914. During 1919-27 he served at the Rifle Depot as an Orderley Room Q.M. Serjeant. Listed as the Superintending Clerk at Brigade H.Q. in 1926. Sold with copied research; clasp confirmed.