Three: Corporal H. Fricker, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, late Rifle Brigade

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (356 Pte., 1st Bn. R.B.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, E.VII.R. (Corpl., 2nd Regt. of Infy.); Queen’s Own Rifles 50th Anniversary Reunion Medal 1860-1910, bronze, enamelled centre, complete with brooch-bar for wearing the first two polished, otherwise generally very fine (3) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Sold with some original picture postcards and a large format photograph, the whole depicting men of the Rifle Brigade or Queen’s Own Highlanders; and more recent research.

Henry Fricker, who was born at Salisbury, enlisted in the Rifle Brigade in December 1859. Posted to the 1st Battalion, he served in Canada between 1861-71, taking his discharge at Montreal in April of the latter year. In common with his two brothers, also ex-Riflemen, he settled in that country and joined the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada. The Frickers receive due recognition in an article that appeared in The Rifle Brigade Chronicle in 1913, entitled Rifle Brigade Veterans in Canada, all being mentioned in one form or another - Henry is credited with being a Band Sergeant in the Q.O.R.C. He received his Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service in General Order 112 of 1909.