Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. E. Court, Rifle Brigade

1914 Star (5583 Pte. E. [sic] Court. 3/Rif: Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (5583 A-Cpl. R. E. Court. Rif. Brig.) some spotting to star, nearly very fine (3) £120-£160

Richard Edward Court was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, and attested there for the Rifle Brigade on 5 August 1914. He served in both the 3rd and 6th Battalions during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 October 1914 to 1915, and in the Balkans from 1915 to 1916. He was discharged at Winchester, no longer physically fit for war service, on 1 December 1917, having suffered from malaria and dysentery, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 279866.