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

Pair: Private R. C. Tanser, Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry), late Northamptonshire Yeomanry

British War Medal 1914-20 (1823 Pte., North’n. Yeo.); Memorial Plaque (Richard Charles Tanser), this last fitted with brass attachment for hanging on reverse; sold with a Christmas Dinner Fund Medal 1914, bronze, 31mm., unnamed, first nearly extremely fine, second about very fine (3) £60-80

Richard Charles Tanser was the son of Mr & Mrs Tanser of 57 Cloutsham St., Northampton. He enlisted into the Northamptonshire Yeomanry and was later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry). He died in Lebanon on 26 October 1918, aged 20 years, and was buried in the Beirut War Cemetery. Sold with a damaged photograph of the recipient.