Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. A. Beck, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (9422 Pte. W. A. Beck. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (9422 Pte. W. A. Beck. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) edge bruising and contact marks, fine

Seven: Driver R. Ritchie, Royal Engineers
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. R. G. Ritchie, 8 Kingshill Rd., Aberdeen’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2079323 Dvr. R. Ritchie. R.E.) extremely fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (G-11433 Pte. R. Lucas. R.W. Kent R.) officially re-impressed, good very fine (11) £100-£140

Walter A. Beck attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in the Hedjaz theatre of War from 5 December 1914.

Richard Lucas attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916. Transferring to the East Kent Regiment that same year, he was killed in action on the Somme on 15 September 1916, whilst serving with the 1st Battalion. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.