Three: Private R. Harrison, Royal Lancaster Regiment

1914 Star (6627 Pte. R. Harrison, R. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (6627 Pte. Pte. R. Harrison. R. Lanc. R.) surface abrasions to obverse of 1914 Star, contact marks and edge wear, nearly very fine (3) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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Robert Harrison was born at Stockport, Cheshire, in 1880 and attested for the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment at Manchester on 19 November 1900. He transferred to the Army Reserve in 1903, but re-engaged in 1912, and was mobilised for active service on 5 August 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914, and is recorded as having sometime been a Prisoner of War at Doberitz in Germany. He received a gun shot wound to the head and was discharged, no longer physically fit for active service, on 20 November 1917, receiving a Silver War Badge No. 278764.