Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

A Great War M.M. group of four to Serjeant C. Riley, Shropshire Light Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (10847 Sjt., 5/Shrops. L.I.); 1914-15 Star (10847 Pte., Shrops. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (10847 Sjt., Shrops. L.I.) nearly extremely fine (4) £400-450

M.M. London Gazette 2 November 1917.

Cornelius Riley was born and lived in Brinsop, Herefordshire and enlisted at Herford. Serving with the 5th Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 22 May 1915 and was killed in action on 24 October 1917, aged 24 years. He was buried in the New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ieper, Belgium. Sold with copied research.