Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. Weir, Royal Irish Rifles

1914-15 Star (12-6350 Pte., R. Irish Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (6350 Pte., R. Ir. Rif.) some edge bruising, about very fine (3) £250-300

John Weir was born in Ballynure and enlisted in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. Serving with the 12th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, he was killed in action on 1 July 1916 - the First Day of the Battle of the Somme. He was buried in the Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France.