Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private F. R. Anthony, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Army Service Corps, later Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (A-2815 Pte. F. Anthony, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (2815 Pte. F. Anthony. K.R. Rif. C.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, the Great War awards mounted together with the recipient’s cap badges and shoulder titles in a glazed wooden display frame, the Second War Awards in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. F. R. Anthony, Holmer Park Lodge, Holmer, Hereford’, good very fine and better (5) £80-120

Frank R. Anthony was born in Upton-on-Severn on 29 July 1882, and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 29 August 1914. He served during the Great War with the 8th Battalion K.R.R.C., before transferring to the Army Service Corps (Motor Transport), and served with No. 9 Motor Ambulance Convoy in Salonika as a Sunbeam Ambulance Driver from 19 January 1916 to 24 April 1919. He transferred to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 15 June 1919. In civilian life he was employed as a Chauffeur at Holmer Park.

Sold together with a glazed and framed photograph of the recipient; two postcard photographs; Certificate of Employment during the Great War; Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; Admiralty enclosure for the Second War awards; and a letter regarding membership of the Salonika Reunion Association.