Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal T. Thorne, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds on 31 October 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (9948 Cpl., K.R.Rif.C.); British War and Victory Medals (9948 Cpl., K.R. Rif. C.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Thorne) good very fine (4) £350-400

Thomas Thorne was born in Lambeth, lived in Westminster and enlisted at Woolwich, Kent. Serving with the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. He died of wounds on 31 October 1914. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. The medals, plaque and the original named memorial scroll are mounted in a wooden glass-fronted frame, 42 x 37cm.

With copied m.i.c. and casualty details.