Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant A. G. Richards, Worcestershire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.), officially renamed; Memorial Plaque (Arthur Gough Richards); ‘Lest we Forget’ Medalllion, by A. Drury, Minerva attending a fallen naked warrior; reverse: Soldier and Sailor with reversed arms, warship in background, with plaque inscribed, ‘Lieut. Arthur Gough Richards, 1/8 Worcestershire Regt., Capt. Ascension Coll. 98, C.L.B., France April 23rd 1917’, 80mm., silvered bronze, ref. B.H.M. 4150; together with 5 Worcestershire Regiment badges, good very fine (9) £100-140

Arthur Gough Richards was born on 23 August 1892. In 1September 1914 he applied for a temporary commission in the Army and was accepted and became a Lieutenant in the Worcestershire Regiment. Serving with the 12th battalion, he was killed in action on 24 April 1917, aged 24 years. The initial report of that date stated ‘missing believed killed’ but his death was confirmed when the remains of his body was recovered in July 1917. He was buried in the Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension. Sold with several copied papers relating to his admission into the army and his death.