Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (2) (7077 L.Cpl. T. Tyson. 2/K.R. Rif: C.; 10100 Pte. L. N. Wells. 2/K.R. Rif: C.) number double struck on latter, good very fine (2) £100-140

Thomas Tyson, a native of Calderbridge, Beckerment, Cumberland, attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Liverpool on 8 June 1906, and served with the 4th Battalion in India for six years before transferring to the Army Reserve. Recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of the Great War, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion and served with them on the Western Front from 26 August 1914. He was wounded during the advance to the Aisne on 17 September 1914, receiving a gun shot wound to the head, and was invalided back to England. Recovering from his wound, he was posted to the 4th Battalion and saw further service on the Western Front, before being killed in action on 2 March 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, and the Beckerment War Memorial, Cumberland.

L. N. Wells served with the 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914, and was wounded during the retreat from Mons. He was discharged on account of wounds on 1 March 1918.