Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain R. C. Sheen, 21st Middlesex Regiment, late 28th London Regiment, taken prisoner in April 1918

1914 Star (978 C.Q.M. Sjt., 1/28 Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) in their named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) £120-140

Ronald Cross Sheen was born in February 1893 and enlisted into the Artists Rifles, from Epsom College O.T.C., in April 1911. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders from 26 October 1914 to 21 March 1915, when he returned to England to take up his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He returned to France in June 1916 as a temporary Captain in the 21st Middlesex Regiment, and was taken prisoner south of Fleurbaix on 9 April 1918. He was interned at Pforzheim and repatriated in December 1918. Sold with 18 pages of copied research, including extract from War Diaries and his account of his capture.