Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Three: Second Lieutenant H. R. Farrar, 3rd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, attached 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment, who was killed in action on 24 December 1914
1914 Star (2 Lieut. H. R. Farrar. Leic: R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. H. R. Farrar.) extremely fine

Pair: Second Lieutenant S. G. Farrar, Manchester Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. S. G. Farrar.) mounted as worn, together with a mounted pair of miniature medals, good very fine (5) £500-£700

Herbert Ronald Farrar was born in South Shields on 25 July 1887, and was educated at Dulwich College, 1898-1906. He gained a B.A. at Queen’s College, Cambridge in 1910 and was for some years in the University O.T.C. During 1910-14 he was employed as a master in preparatory schools at Ripple, Kent, and Windlesham, Sussex. In the Spring of 1914 he travelled in the South of France, Egypt and Italy. Upon the outbreak of war he joined the Public Schools Battalion and a month later he was gazetted with the 3rd Reserve Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. Serving as a 2nd lieutenant on attachment to the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment, he went to France on 27 October 1914 and was killed in action in Flanders on 24 December 1914, aged 27 years. He is buried in the Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.
His younger brother, Sidney Goldner Farrar, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment on 5 July 1917. The two were the sons of the Rev. Herbert William and Florence Margaret Farrar, of Barcombe Rectory, Lewes, Sussex.