Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private R. K. Childs, Lincolnshire Regiment

1914 Star (8045 Pte. R. K. Childs. 1/Linc: R.); British War Medal 1914-20, erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (8045 Pte. R. K. Childs. Linc. R.); Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre, A.I.R., bronze, good very fine (4) £80-£120

Robert Key Childs, a native of Mansfield, attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. For his services during the Great War he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 15 April 1918).