British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant B. K. Sheppard, Someset Light Infantry and 1/1st Gurkha Rifles, late North Somerset Yeomanry

1914 Star (450 Pte., 1/1 N. Som. Yeo.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lieut.) some contact marks, very fine (2) £80-100

Private Bertram Kingston Sheppard, 1/1st Battalion Somerset Yeomanry, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 2 November 1914. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant and then promoted to Lieutenant in July 1917, he served with the 1/1st King George V Gurkha Rifles and the 4th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry. With copied m.i.c. which shows entitlement to clasp to 1914 Star.