Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private V. Richards, Monmouthshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (61014 Pte. V. Richards. Monmouth. R.); together with a Llandebie Tribute Medal 1914-19, silver and enamel (hallmarks for Birmingham 1921), the reverse inscribed ‘Presented by the People of Llanderbie to Pre. V. Richards K.S.L.I.’, minor enamel damage to last, generally very fine, the last rare (3) £140-£180

Vincent Richards was born in Llandebie, Carmarthenshire, on 27 November 1898 and attested for the Monmouthshire Regiment at Carmarthen on 27 October 1916. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 October 1918, transferring to the 1st Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry on 29 October 1918, and was demobilised on 4 February 1919. He died on 21 September 1994, aged 95.

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