Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War campaign pair awarded to 2nd Lieutenant E. C. A. Runnels-Moss, Royal Field Artillery, who was captured on the first day of the German Spring Offensive and subsequently died of wounds

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. E. C. A. Runnels-Moss), in their named card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Eric Cross Arnold Runnels-Moss), and Buckingham Palace Memorial Scroll in the name of ‘2/Lieut. Eric Cross Arnold Runnels-Moss, Royal Field Artillery’, this in glazed copper frame display frame, extremely fine (Lot) £300-350

Eric Cross Arnold Runnels-Moss died of wounds in captivity on 9 July 1918, having been taken P.O.W. on the first day of the German Spring Offensive while serving in 2nd Brigade, R.F.A. He is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel.

Also see Lots 1135 and 1052 for the Great War medals awarded to his brothers, Lieutenant C. G. V. Runnels-Moss, who was killed in action while serving as a pilot in No. 70 Squadron in December 1917, and Lieutenant R. St. J. R. Runnels-Moss, R.F.A., late Warwickshire Yeomanry.