Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. H. Cuthbert, Army Pay Corps, late Royal Fusiliers

1914-15 Star (5816 L. Cpl. R. H. Cuthbert, R. Fus.); British War Medal 1914-20 (G-5816 Pte. . R. H. Cuthbert, R. Fus.), together with the recipient’s Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Robert Howard Cuthbert), good very fine or better (3) £70-80

Robert Howard Cuthbert was born at Clun, Salop in 1891, the son of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Cuthbert, and was working as an insurance inspector on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914. Enlisting in the Royal Fusiliers in the same month, he was embarked for France at the year’s end, where he served in the 6th Battalion. Sometime thereafter, however, he transferred to the Army Pay Corps, and it was while employed in that capacity that he died back in the U.K. on 25 October 1918. He was buried in South Ealing Cemetery; sold with research.