Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance-Corporal R. Farmer, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action at the Third Battle of Ypres, 24 August 1917

British War and Victory Medals (R-12085 Pte. R. Farmer. K.R. Rif. C.); Memorial Plaque (Robert Farmer) trace of verdigris to plaque, the BWM darkly toned, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140

Robert Farmer was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and attested there for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 24 August 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, and is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.