Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sergeant H. M. Rawson, 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

British War and Victory Medals (C-12561 A. Sjt. H. M. Rawson. K. R. Rif. C.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (C-12561 Cpl H.M. Rawson. 21/ K. R. Rif. C.) nearly extremely fine (3) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919:
‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’

Harold Rawson was born in Hull, Yorkshire on 16 June 1895, and prior to the Great War he lived in the Hessle district of Hull where he worked as a clerk for a firm of importers. He married Violet Normansell in 1924 and then lived in Southampton where he died in 1975.