Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War 1916 M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant E. Runyeard, Guards Division Signals Company, Royal Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches in October 1914 for the Battle of the Aisne, and died of wounds on the Western Front on 20 March 1916

Military Medal, G.V.R. (23324 Sjt: E. Runyeard. Gds: D. S. Co. R.E.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (23324 Sjt. E. Runyeard. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (23324 Sjt. E. Runyeard. R.E.); Memorial Plaque (Edgar Runyeard) in card envelope, nearly extremely fine (5) £500-£700

M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 20 October 1914.

Edgar John Runyeard was born in Martin, Wiltshire, in 1888 and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment at Salisbury. Transferring to the Royal Engineers, he served during the Great War as a Sergeant with the 3rd Signals Company (Guards Division) on the Western Front from 16 August 1914, and was Mentioned in Field Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 8 October 1914 for his services at the Battle of the Aisne. He died of wounds on 20 March 1916, and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, being Gazetted for the Military Medal three months later.

Sold with an original enclosure form the Director of Graves Registration & Enquiries; and copied research.