Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant R. St. J. R. Runnels-Moss, Royal Field Artillery, late Warwickshire Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (2216 Pte. R. St. J. R. Runnels-Moss, Warwick. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. St. J. R. Runnels-Moss), in their named card boxes of issue, together with a swimming prize medal, silver, with gilt obverse centre, the reverse named and dated ‘R. R. Moss, 1908’, extremely fine (4) £180-220

Reginald St. John Richard Runnels-Moss originally entered the Balkans theatre of war as a Private in the 1/1 Warwickshire Yeomanry on 18 August 1915, on which date his unit landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. Subsequently engaged in the attacks on Chocolate Hill and Hill 112 on the 21st, the unit was merged with the 1/1 Gloucestershire and 1/1/ Worcestershire Yeomanry on account of battle casualties and sickness in early September, and remained actively employed in the peninsula until evacuated to Mudros at the end of October.

Runnels-Moss was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in March 1917, and appears to have served in that capacity with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force until the War’s end.

Also see Lots 1135 and 1133 for the Great War medals awarded to his brothers, 2nd Lieutenant C. G. V. Runnels-Moss, who was killed in action while serving as a pilot in No. 70 Squadron in December 1917, and 2nd Lieutenant E. C. A. Runnels-Moss, R.F.A., who died of wounds in captivity in July 1918.