Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance Corporal T. P. Butler, Royal Sussex Regiment, late Sussex Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals (2802 Pte., Suss. Yeo.) together with Memorial Plaque (Thomas Patrick Butler), nearly extremely fine (3) £120-160

Thomas Patrick Butler was born in Dublin and enlisted at Brighton. Serving initially with the Sussex Yeomanry as Private 2802, he was with the 16th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, serving as Lance Corporal 320396, when he was killed in action on 21 September 1918, aged 42 years. He was buried in the St. Emilie Valley Cemetery at Villers-Faucon

Sold with related sporting awards (3), one, gold and enamel, inscribed, ‘T. B., Championship, 1st V.B. R.S.R., 22.3.98’; another inscribed, ‘T. B., 1st V.B. Rl. Sx. Rt., Tug of War, 2nd, 1902’; the third, unnamed.