Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (Capt. F. I. Harrison; Lieut. C. J. A. Kysh; 2 Lieut. J. P. Storrs) good very fine and better (3) £100-140

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Francis Ingleby Harrison was born on 27 April 1883 at home in Underwood House, Hornsey Lane, Islington. He was educated at Westminster College and Christ Church Oxford, then left England to be the Manager of a Rubber Estate in Malaya. With the onset of war, he returned to England and on 3 November 1915 was commissioned into the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment on 3 November 1915. On 28 July 1916 he sailed to France and joined the 1st Battalion R.W.K. and served with them in France and in Italy. He was promoted to Lieutenant in February 1918 and advanced to Acting Captain in April 1918. Returning to France, the 1st Battalion found itself at Barley as part of 13 Brigade, 5th Division, placed in Reserve. When on 9 April, the great German offensive began and the Germans broke through the Portuguese near Neuve Chapelle, the 1st Battalion was moved forward to the front line near Plate Becque. Here they suffered constant German shelling, nightly aerial bombing and continually heavy machine gun fire. During this period three officers were wounded one of whom was Acting Captain Harrison who received a “Gunshot wound in the right thigh, left arm and right foot.” He was evacuated to 39th Stationary Hospital but died from his wounds on 8 May 1918. He was buried in the Aire Communal Cemetery. He was the son of Rev. J. J. Harrison, Chaplain and Naval Instructor, R.N. and L. E. Harrison, of Boscastle, Cornwall.

Claude James Anthony Kysh was born in St Michael’s, Barbados, on 31 January 1894. He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados, and joined the Barbados Volunteer Force in 1910. After leaving College he became a Sugar Planter. Returning to England with the onset of war, he was commissioned into the 7th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment on 14 October 1914. With them he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 18 August 1914. In November he contracted ‘Trench Foot’ and on 31 December was evacuated to England. By August 1916 he had recovered sufficiently to join the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion and sail to Egypt on ‘Draft Conducting Duties’. Still not fully fit; in July 1918 a medical report stated he was suffering from Trench Foot and Neuritis. Returning to England for treatment, he died on 27 November 1918 in the Norfolk War Hospital, Thorpe, Norfolk.

James Parker Storrs was born in Stalybridge, Cheshire, and was educated at Manchester University and Clare College, Cambridge and, following his graduation, became a solicitor. On 24 May 1915 he was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment, initially into the 2nd Battalion and then on 28 July 1916 he was posted to the 1/6th Battalion in France. He was promoted a Temporary Lieutenant on 23 October 1916. He died of wounds received in action, at No.32 C.C.S. in Belgium, on 8 August 1917. All with copied service papers and research.