Seven: Captain H. C. Lovell, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, late London Regiment

1914 Star, with copy clasp (1177 Sjt., 1/16 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence and War Medals (43901 Capt. H. C. Lovell, K.R.R.C.) privately impressed; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (1177 C.Q.M. Sjt., 16/Lond. R.) Cadet Forces Medal, G.VI.R. (A/Capt.) mounted for display, some edge bruising and contact marks, fine and better (7) £250-300

Henry (Harry) Chandler Lovell was born in Hammersmith, London in 1883. joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles c.1908. As a Serjeant with them he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 1 November 1914 (clasp confirmed on m.i.c.). On 25 January 1916 he received a commission in the 20th (Blackheath & Woolwich) Battalion London Regiment. Promoted to Lieutenant in July 1917, he attained the rank of Acting Captain in September 1918. Awarded the T.F.E.M. by A.O. 67 of February 1919. Lovell relinquished his rank on ceasing to be employed in April 1919 but was granted the rank of Captain in the Territorial Force Reserve of the 20th Battalion London Regiment in March 1920. In civil life he was appointed Postmaster in the Royston Sub-Office, Oldham, Lancashire. His obituary states that after the war he served with a Church Lads; Brigade Battalion, which at the time was associated with the K.R.R.C. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the National Defence Corps in June 1939 and Lieutenant and Quartermaster in June 1940, before being granted the rank of Captain upon his retirement in September 1942. Soon after he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the City of London Army Cadet Force and was advanced to Lieutenant in October 1943. Lovell retired having reached the age limit in April 1951 and was awarded the Cadet Forces Medal. He died at Hillingdon Hospital, Middlesex on 15 June 1953.

With an officer’s bronzed cap badge of the 20th London Regiment and with a quantity of copied research including obituary, m.i.c., gazette extracts and copied group photographs.