Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private S. Burnell, Army Cyclist Corps
1914-15 Star (6556 Pte. S. Burnell, A. Cyclist Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (6556 Pte. S. Burnell A. Cyc. Corps.) polished, nearly very fine

Pair: Private D. Main, 13th Hussars
British War and Victory Medals (24886 Pte. D. Main. 13-Hrs.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Second Lieutenant J. R. Stopford, Rifle Brigade
British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. J. R. Stopford.) mounted as worn, good very fine (7) £100-140

Sydney Burnell attested for the Army Cyclist Corps and served during the Great War with the 22nd Divisional Cyclist Company on the Western Front from 6 September 1915. He later served with the 12th Corps Cyclists Battalion in Salonica and was transferred to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 26 February 1919.


David Main was born in 1890 and attested for the 13th Hussars on 22 April 1916. He was discharged from the 3rd Cavalry Depot on 29 December 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.


Joseph Richmond Stopford was born in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, in 1896, the son of the Reverend Joseph Thomas Sarsfield Stopford, Rector of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, and later Rector of St Ewe, Mevagissey, Cornwall. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade from the Officer Training Corps on 10 November 1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from September 1916. He relinquished his commission from the 6th Battalion Rifle Brigade on 1 April 1920. He was entitled to the Silver War Badge. He died in Kensington, London, in 1970.

Stopford’s father, the Rev. Joseph Thomas Sarsfield Stopford, competed for Great Britain in archery in the 1908 London Olympic Games.