Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain O. P. Churchyard, Rifle Brigade

1914-15 Star (Lieut. O. P. Churchyard. Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. O. P. Churchyard.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Capt. Oliver Churchyard.); together with a large lozenge-shaped religious medal, 80mm x 50mm, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Mervit O. P. Churchyard MDCCCCI’, generally very fine (5) £120-£160

Oliver Percy Churchyard was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 3 June 1915.

For the medals to the recipient’s brother, Second Lieutenant J. H. Churchyard, see Lot 216.

Note: The Great War medal group awarded to his younger brother, Captain Arthur Stewart Churchyard, 6th Rifle Brigade, were sold in these rooms on 22 September 2000.