Auction Catalogue

26 & 27 September 2018

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 899 x

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27 September 2018

Hammer Price:
£180

Three: Corporal J. Forbes, Royal Engineers
1914-15 Star (80037 Dvr: J. Forbes. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (80037 A.2. Cpl. J. Forbes. R.E.) nearly extremely fine

Three:
Private J. Mooney, Yorkshire Regiment
1914-15 Star (9584 Pte. J. Mooney, York. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9584 Pte. J. Mooney. York. R.) good very fine

Pair:
Gunner H. Rayner, Royal Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (374159 Gnr. H. Rayner. R.A.) good very fine

Pair:
Private J. M. Graham, Machine Gun Corps
British War and Victory Medals (160256 Pte. J. M. Graham. M.G.C.) edge bruise, good very fine

1914-15 Star (667 Pte. F. L. Morris. R.W. Fus:); British War Medal 1914-20 (3888 Pte. A. I. Pritchard. 15-Lond. R.) very fine (12) £100-140

James Forbes served with the Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 August 1915.

John Mooney served with the Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 8 September 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment.

Frank Llewellyn Morris was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in 1894 and attested for the Territorial Force on 22 February 1911. He served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 8 August 1915, and was admitted to hospital on 5 December 1915. He was discharged due to sickness on 18 December 1916.

Arthur Illtyd Pritchard was born in Lee, London, on 22 October 1880, and was educated at Felsted School and the Queens’ College, Cambridge. He passed the Civil Service Examination and was appointed to H.M. Office of Works, subsequently serving as Private Secretary to the First Commissioner of Works before attested for the London Regiment. Posted to the 1st/15th Battalion, London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles), he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 28 March 1916, and was killed in action on 21 May 1916, on which date the Battalion was in action at Villers au Bois. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

Sold with copied research including the relevant Battalion War Diary extracts.