Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Six: Major B. Croft, 28th (Artists Rifles), attached 10th (Hackney Rifles) London Regiment, killed by shellfire the day before the Armistice was signed, 10 November 1918

1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., 28/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major); Coronation 1902; Coronation 1911; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1917; together with memorial plaque (Benjamin Croft); together with a copy of Memories of The Artists Rifles, by Colonel H. A. R. May, C.B., V.D., published 1929, in which Croft is pictured several times, good very fine fine or better and an extremely rare combination of medals to a casualty (7) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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Benjamin Croft was educated at Radley College, being commissioned into the Artists Rifles in 1898. He went to France with his regiment in November 1914, and was killed by shellfire on 10 November 1918, whilst attached to the 10th Battalion, London Regiment. He is buried at Harveng Churchyard, Mons, Belgium.