Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Second Lieutenant G. Mason, 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, later King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died on the Western Front on 7 June 1917
1914-15 Star (Stk-168 Sgt. G. Mason. R. Fus:); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. G. Mason.) extremely fine

Pair: Private R. G. Mason, Tank Corps, who was killed in action at Cambrai on 21 November 1917
British War and Victory Medals (40336 Pte. R. G. Mason. Tank Corps.) extremely fine (5) £80-£100

Gordon Mason attested for the 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 July 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 20 September 1916, and served with the 21st Battalion. He died on 7 June 1917, and is buried in Dickbusch New Military Cemetery Extension, Belgium.

Robert Godfrey Mason, brother of the above, attested for the Tank Corps and served with ‘G’ Battalion during the Great War. He was killed in action at Cambrai on 21 November 1917; he has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, France.

Another family member, A. F. Mason, served with the 4th (Guildford) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard, during the Second World War.

Sold with named Record Office enclosures for both Great War medal groups; and various Second War Home Guard ephemera.