Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance Corporal F. Reilly, Royal West Kent Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, Transvaal (5153 Pte., 2nd Rl. W. Kent Regt.), unofficial rivets between 2nd, 3rd and 4th clasps; British War and Victory Medals (1078 Pte., R.W. Kent R.), first with minor contact marks, good very fine and better (3) £140-180

Frank Reilly was born in Calcutta, India and attested for service at Woolwich in May 1898. As Private 5153 he served in South Africa, Egypt, Malta and Ceylon. His Discharge Certificate states he was awarded the Queen’s South Africa Medal with two clasps. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in January 1906 and was discharged from the Reserve in May 1910. With the onset of the Great War he re-enlisted into the regiment as Private 1078. Entering the France/Flanders theatre of war with the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment on 22 April 1915, he was killed in action on 27 May 1915. He was buried in the Voormezeele Enclosures, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Sold with original Small Book; Discharge Certificate (1910); 1914-15 Star forwarding slip and Infantry Record Office letter and map re. location of grave; also with copied research.