Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant R. G. Field, 10th Hussars, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 6 April 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R. G. Field.); Memorial Plaque (Reginald George Field), with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘2/Lieut. Reginald George Field, 10th. Hussars.’, this last mounted on card, about extremely fine (4) £300-£400

Reginald George Field was born in London in 1895, the son of George Hanbury Field and the Hon. Emily Maud Field, née Hardinge; and was the great grandson of both Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, Governor-General of India; and Field Marshal George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, who commanded the Cavalry Division during the Crimean War. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 February 1917.

Field was mortally wounded at Hamel during the German Spring Offensive on 4 April 1918, and died of his wounds on 6 April 1918. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France, and has a memorial in St. Peter’s Church, Fordcombe, Kent, in whose churchyard almost two dozen members of the Hardinge family are buried.

Sold with copied research, including various group photographic images of the recipient as a member of various Eton XIs.