Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (4326 C. Sjt: J. Riach. 1/V.B. W. Riding Regt.) impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £60-£80

Believed to be James Riach, who was born in Elgin, Scotland, and served in a Volunteer Company of the West Riding Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, and South Africa 1902). He subsequently served with the 1st/4th Battalion, West Riding Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 14 August 1915. He is buried in Colne Valley Cemetery, Belgium.