Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: R. G. Brundrit, British Red Cross and Order of St John, a noted artist and founder of the Wharfdale Group

British War and Victory Medals (R. G. Brundrit. B.R.C. & St. J.J.) together with Serbian Red Cross Society of London, silver medal for service to Serbia during war 1914-1918, unnamed, good very fine (3) £200-£300

Reginald Grange Brundrit was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool on 13 May 1883. Educated in Skipton, then at Bradford Grammar School, Reginald went on to study art at Bradford School of Art, before moving to London to study at the Slade School. Reginald also studied as a private pupil with John Swan, RA. Reginald was predominantly a landscape and portrait painter. He exhibited around two hundred of his paintings between 1906 and 1960, both at Royal Academy art exhibitions and at international exhibitions in Pittsburgh, USA, Rome and Venice in Italy and Paris in France.

During the First World War, Reginald volunteered with the Red Cross and served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front with the Third Red Cross Ambulance Unit of The British Red Cross Society and Order Of St John Of Jerusalem.

Reginald was the founder member of the Wharfedale Group and was Vice President of The Yorkshire Union of Artists. He was a successful artist during the 1920’s, establishing a reputation as one of the leading landscape artists of North Yorkshire. The National Gallery of New South Wales purchased his painting of ‘A Northern Winter.’

Reginald Brundrit died on 27 November 1960, at his home in Masham, Yorkshire.