Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. A. Rutherford, London Regiment, who was killed in action in April 1917

1914-15 Star (1927 Pte. H. A. Rutherford, 3-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1927 Pte. H. A. Rutherford, 3-Lond. R.), together with the recipient’s Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Horace Alfred Rutherford), this last a little polished, generally very fine (4) £180-220

Horace Alfred Rutherford was embarked for France as a Private in the 1/3rd Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment in January 1915. He was killed in action on 11 April 1917 and is buried in Tigris Lane Cemetery, Wancourt. The son of Alfred and Edith Rutherford of Ascham Street, Kentish Town, London, he was 19 years old.