Auction Catalogue

26 January 2022

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Lot

№ 153

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26 January 2022

Hammer Price:
£500

Family Group:

Pair:
Second Lieutenant J. R. Tarras, Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action on 3 October 1916
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. R. Tarras.) in named card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (John Rae Tarras) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope of issue, extremely fine

Pair:
Nora Tarras, Voluntary Aid Detachment
British War and Victory Medals (N. Tarras. V.A.D.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s identity bracelet ‘Nora Tarras V.A.D. Pres. Aberdeen 40’; and three British Red Cross Society badges, the first for three years’ service, the reverse numbered ‘2312’, the second a County of Cheshire badge, the reverse named ‘5531 N. Hollis’, nearly extremely fine

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. G. H. Tarras. R.A.F.); together with a School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges, Edinburgh, silver prize medal, the reverse engraved ‘Diseases of Children, awarded to George H. Tarras Summer Session 1922’, in fitted case of issue, extremely fine (lot) £200-£240

John Rae Tarras was born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the son of Andrew Tarras, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. He served with the 9th Trench Mortar Battery during the Great War on the Western Front from May 1916, and was killed in action by a shell on 16 October 1916. He is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, France.

Eleanor ‘Nora’ Tarras (née Hollis) was born in Fraserburgh on 9 August 1893. She worked as a V.A.D. Nurse in military hospitals in Aberdeen and in France, 1915-19.

For the R.N.L.I. medal awarded to Andrew Tarras, see Lot 617.