Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieutenant H. R. Pybus, Durham Light Infantry, accidentally killed, 24 July 1916

1914-15 Star (Lieut., Durh. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) extremely fine (3) £180-220

Harold Robert Pybus was born on 6 May 1891, the third son of Robert Pybus, a Solicitor, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Educated at Charterhouse, 1904-07, and Aldenham, 1908-10, he was later employed as a Solicitors Articled Clerk. As an officer in the Durham Light Infantry, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 17 August 1915 and served on the Western Front, 1915-16 and was wounded. As a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, he was killed in a motor cycle accident on 24 July 1916. The Times of 25 July 1916 reported, ‘While riding a motorcycle near Seaham Harbour on Sunday night during a fog, Lieutenant Harold Pybus ran into a trap carrying passengers and was fatally injured, he was 25 years, old.’ Lieutenant Pybus was buried in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne (St. Andrew’s and Jesmond) Cemetery. With copied research including m.i.c.