Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Three: Private R. R. Carnell, Grenadier Guards

1914 Star (9613 Pte., 1/G. Gds.), silver rosette on ribbon; British War and Victory Medals (9513 Pte., G. Gds.)

Pair: Private T. S. Carnell, Somerset Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (27446 Pte., Som. L.I.) good very fine and better (5) £140-160

Tekoa Sidney Carnell was born and lived in Sidbury, Devon and enlisted at Axminster, Somerset, serving initially with the Devonshire Regiment. Later serving with the 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 22 August 1917, aged 30 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

The awards to Private R. R. Carnell are sold with a brass bed plate by Hobson & Sons, London, inscribed on front, ‘9513 R. R. Carnell, Grenadier Guards’ and stamped on back ‘Duty’.