Orders, Decorations and Medals

1914 Star, with copy clasp (6598 Pte. H. Copley, 1/K.R. Rif. C.) extremely fine £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 60th Rifles and King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

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Horace Copley enlisted into the K.R.R.C. on 9 August 1905. Serving with the 1st battalion in the Great War, he was posted as missing on 3 November 1914. Having been captured, he was held as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans at Gustrew Camp. Repatriated after the war, he was transferred to the Army Reserve on 1 April 1919. Sold with copied servce papers.