Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sapper E. Grimshaw, Royal Engineers, who died on the Western Front on 28 April 1917
1914-15 Star (59634 Spr. E. Grimshaw. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (59634 Spr. E. Grimshaw. R.E.) good very fine

Pair: Lieutenant A. Durst, Royal Engineers
British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. Durst.) good very fine (5) £70-£90

Edward Grimshaw, of Anne’s-on-the-Sea, Lancashire, attested for the Royal Engineers and served with the 152nd Field Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 July 1915. He died on 28 April 1917, and is buried at Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery.
Sold with named Record Office enclosures.

Austin Durst was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 6 November 1915 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from October 1916.