Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal F. H. T. Burfield, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), who was killed in action near Brielen during the First Battle of Ypres on 19 November 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (1475 Cpl. F. Burfield. R. H. Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (1475 Tpr. F. H. T. Burfield. R. H. Gds.) with named lid from card box of issue, extremely fine (3) £260-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals.

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Frank Henry Thomas Burfield was born in 1891 at Bow, Middlesex and attested for the Royal Horse Guards in August 1911 at Westminster, Middlesex, advancing to Lance Corporal on 31 August 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 October 1914 as part of the 7th Household Cavalry Brigade in the 3rd Cavalry Division. Having been heavily engaged at Zandvoorde, concluding with the loss of Lord Worsley’s Machine-Gun Section in a famous bloody last stand with the Life Guards on 30 October, the Royal Horse Guards remained in the Ypres Sector during November and Lance Corporal Burfield was killed in action near Brielen, just north west of Ypres on 19 November.

He was the son of Edmund C. and Amelia Burfield of Market Place, New Barnet, Hertfordshire and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. He is also named on the Household Cavalry Monument at Zanvoorde.