Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Three: Second Lieutenant W. R. H. Merriman, Rifle Brigade, a Somme casualty

1914 Star, with clasp (893 Pte., H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (2. Lieut); together with memorial plaque (William Robert Hill Merriman); original card boxes of issue for medals, forwarding envelope for plaque and 3rd Division Gallantry Card, extremely fine (4) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of of Great War Medals to the Rifle Brigade.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 15 October 1915.

William Robert Hill Merriman was a scholar of Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He took a first in Classical Moderations and in “Greats” and was placed 27th in the Home and India Civil Service examination. He entered the Inland Revenue and in 1912 became a committee clerk. He was a devoted traveller and had just returned when war broke out from a walking tour in the Balkans. He enlisted in the H.A.C. Infantry on 4 August 1914, proceeded overseas with the 1st Battalion in September and achieved promotion to Sergeant by May 1915. He was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded a Divisional Gallantry Commendation. He went to the Cadet School in France in March 1916 and was commissioned in the 8th (S) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, which he joined on 9 May, serving in “C” Company. He was Killed in Action by machine-gun fire on the night of 15 August 1916 while going out with a covering party from Dorset Trench, near Longueval. He was buried in Green Dump Cemetery, Longueval and is now commemorated on a special memorial in Quarry Cemetery, Montauban.

Sold with copy portrait photo.