Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private E. N. McBurnie, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action with the 7th Battalion during the German “liquid fire attack” at Hooge in July 1915

British War and Victory Medals (B-1998 Pte., Rif. Brig.), good very fine or better (2) £60-80

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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Ernest Norman McBurnie, who was born in Clapham, London, was killed in action in the German “liquid fire attack” at Hooge on 30 July 1915, while serving in the 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade - an action that resulted in battalion casualties of nearly 500 men killed, wounded or missing and the award of the V.C. to 2nd Lieutenant Sydney Woodroffe. McBurnie, who was accordingly entitled to the 1914-15 Star, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.