Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sapper R. H. Hurst, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (142308 Spr., R.E.); Portugal, Republic, Military Medal for Good Service, bronze, very fine and better, scarce (3) £220-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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Portugal Good Service Medal London Gazette 8 March 1920.

Richard Henry Hurst of Manningham, Bradford, a Temporary Post Sorting Clerk, attested for the Royal Engineers at Bradford on 22 November 1915, aged 19 years. He was posted as an Office Telegraphist at the R.E. Signal Depot. In June 1917 he was attached to the Portuguese Expeditionary Force and in June 1918 he was posted to the 5th Tank Brigade Signal Company R.E. Transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 25 February 1919. For his wartime service with the Portuguese forces he was awarded the Good Service Medal in bronze (In Portuguese documents he is listed as ‘42308 Sapper Robert Henry Hurst, R.E.).

With copied m.i.c. and a number of service papers, together with other research.