Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Three: Private R. A. Head, 6th Dragoon Guards

1914 Star (8514 l. Cpl., 6/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (D-8514 Pte., 6-D. Gds.) extremely fine (3) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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Robert Arthur Head was born in Wateringbury, Maidstone, Kent and enlisted at Stratford. Serving as a Lance Corporal with the 6th Dragoon Guards, he landed on the mainland with his regiment on 16 August 1914 and was killed in action at Messines, Belgium, 31 October 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate.