Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private R. Jones, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action with the 16th Battalion on the Somme on the first day of the “German Spring Offensive”

British War and Victory Medals (S-32710 Pte., Rif. Brig.), good very fine (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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Richard Jones, who was born in Hackney, Middlesex, but resident at Rochdale, Lancashire at the time of his enlistment, was killed in action on the Somme on 21 March 1918, the first day of the “German Spring Offensive”, while serving in the 16th Battalion, Rifle Brigade - as noted in his unit’s war diary, ‘a violent bombardment commenced at 4.30 a.m. with high-explosive shrapnel and gas-shells’. Jones, who was entitled to just the British War and Victory Medals, is buried in Le Cateau Military Cemetery, France.