Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Private R. Tattersall, 10th Hussars, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 12 February 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (4372. Pte. R. Tattersall. 10th. Hussars); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4372 Pte. R. Tattersall. 10th. Hussars); 1914-15 Star (28313 Pte. R. Tattershall [sic]. 10th. Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (28313 Pte. R. Tattershall [sic]. 10-Hrs.) with lids of named card boxes of issue for the Great War awards with OHMS transmission envelopes addressed to ‘Mrs. E. A. Tattersall, 3 River View Terrace, Penworthan, Preston, Lancashire’, light contact marks, very fine and better (5) £200-£240

Rowland Tattersall was born in Accrington, Lancashire, in 1877 and attested for the 10th Hussars at Preston, Lancashire, on 4 January 1897, having previously served in the 5th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers. He purchased his discharge on 9 March 1898, but re-enlisted in the 10th Hussars at Preston on 16 January 1900, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from 23 May to 16 October 1900, and again from 23 February 1901 to 5 June 1902. He saw further service in India from 6 January 1903 to 24 October 1907, before transferring to the Army Reserve on 16 January 1908. He was discharged on 15 January 1912.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Tattersall enlisted in the 10th Hussars for a third time, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 November 1914. He was killed in action on 12 February 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Sold with named Record Office enclosure for the British War and Victory Medals; OHMS transmission envelope for the Memorial Plaque; and copied research.