Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal D. E. Hurrell, Rifle Brigade, later Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force

1914 Star, with clasp (7003 Pte D. Hurrell. 3/Rif: Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (7003 Pte. D. E. Hurrell. Rif. Brig.) mounted as worn, dark staining to rim of VM almost obscuring surname, nearly very fine and better (3) £100-140

David Edward Hurrell was born in Norwich on 10 January 1883, and attested for the Rifle Brigade on 30 October 1899, but did not serve in South Africa. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 30 October 1911, but was re-called to the Colours on the outbreak of the Great War and served on the Western Front from 10 September 1914. He was sent to hospital at St. Omer with a fractured right scapula (accidental) and returned to Edmonton Military Hospital on 8 January 1916. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 21 July 1916, and was posted to No. 50 Squadron, being promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1917. He served at Seaplane Base, Malta, from 6 July 1919 until 29 December 1919, and was discharged as temporary Sergeant (Fitter) on 23 March 1920. He died in Norwich in 1953.