Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (6 Bde. 296 Pte. J. Toms, 1/25th Foot)

British War Medal 1914-20 (R-30441 Pte. H. B. Toms, K.R. Rif. C.) this officially renamed, very fine (2) £120-160

Father and son’s medals.

Herbert Buller Toms was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, lived in Islington, Middlesex and enlisted at Holloway, Middlesex. Serving with the 17th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he died of wounds, France/Flanders, on 3 April 1918. He was buried in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. He was the son of James and Rebecca Toms. With roll extracts, war diary extracts and m.i.c.