Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (7067 Pte. E. T. Josephs. 1/R. Ir: Rif.) regimental number slightly double struck, good very fine £60-£80

Edmund Thomas Josephs was born in Winchester, Hampshire and attested for the Royal Irish Rifles at Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland, on 19 April 1889, aged 14 years and four months. At 18 years of age he continued to serve as a Musician before transferring to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers on 12 March 1901, before his discharge after twelve years’ service on 16 May 1903. Re-enlisting into the Royal Irish Rifles on 21 July 1903, he was appointed Musician on 6 April 1909 and went on to serve with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914. He was discharged at the termination of his second period of engagement on 20 July 1916 and awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 68,849 as a consequence of being overage.

Sold with copy service records and copy Medal Index Card.