Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Major R. G. L. Rivis, Inns of Court Regiment and Royal Army Service Corps

France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937, these unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (6802649 W.O. Cl. 2, R.A.S.C.) mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £150-200

Ronald Gordon Lockhart Rivis was born at Wandsworth on 22 November 1904, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Charles Lockhart, D.S.O. He was employed as a Law Clerk and was admitted as a Solicitor in 1934. He joined the Inns of Court Training Corps in the early 1920’s but he resigned when he went to South Africa for a few years. He rejoined on his return and was for some time Regimental Secretary and in 1934 was appointed Honorary Librarian and Historian to the Regiment. In 1936 he was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant. In 1937 he was awarded the Coronation Medal as Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant. He went to Sandhurst with ‘B’ Squadron at the beginning of the Second World War but later transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps and was commissioned on 14 January 1940. He was appointed a War Substantive Captain on 11 April 1941 and Temporary Major on 1 October 1941. Major Rivis was awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1946.

After the war he was appointed Solicitor to the Church of England Pension Board. He was author of The Gunnersbury Park Museum 1927-1955 and wrote many articles for the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. He was member of the Council of the S.A.H.R., Vice President of the Military Historical Society and was a founding trustee and legal advisor to the Army Museums Ogilby Trust. In addition he was Committee Member of the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry Association and was Curator of the Regimental Museum which he founded in the early 1920’s. Major Rivis died on 8 October 1981.

With copied research.