Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private W. H. Field, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action with the 3rd Battalion in Belgium in October 1915

1914 Star (Z-537 Pte., 3/Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (Z-537 Pte., Rif. Brig.), very fine or better (3) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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William Henry Field, who was born in Bermondsey, Surrey, but resident at Rotherhithe, Kent at the time of his enlistment, was killed in action in Belgium on 23 October 1915, while serving in the 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Hedgerow Trench Cemetery Memorial, Zillebeke, Belgium.