British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: 2nd Lieutenant H. R. Gilbert, Royal Artillery, late 3rd County of London (Sharpshooters)

1914-15 Star (923 Pte. H. R. Gilbert, 3rd Co. of Lond. Y.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. H. R. Gilbert), the first with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3) £80-100

Henry Rimington Gilbert, who first entered the Egyptian theatre of war as a Private in the 3rd City of London (Sharpshooters) in April 1915, would have served in Gallipoli later in the same year and, most probably, in Egypt, Salonika and Palestine 1916-17. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in March 1918.