Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private R. Brooke, King’s Own Scottish Borderers

1914-15 Star (20305 Pte., K.O. Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (20305 Pte., K.O. Sco. Bord.); Defence Medal unnamed; Silver War Badge (121366) good very fine (5) £80-100

Ralph Brooke was born in Batley, West Yorkshire on 4 June 1896. A Millhand by occupation, he enlisted into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Dewsbury on 8 June 1915. With the 1st Battalion he entered the Balkan theatre of war on 24 September 1915. He served in France, April- 8 July 1916 and again, October 1916-January 1917. He was discharged as no longer physically fit for war service at Hamilton on 1 August 1917. His papers record that he had a wound to the left leg below the knee.

With original certificate of discharge; character certificate; 1914-15 Star forwarding slip; employment card for soldiers discharged medically unfit - these with plastic protection; with original War Office ‘book’ to the hold the above documents; copied photograph; silver disk inscribed, ‘Ethel’ and copied regimental history extracts, roll extracts and m.i.c.