Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (Major R. E. L. Maunsell) scratch to obverse field, nearly extremely fine £60-80

Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell was born in Raheny, Co. Dublin on 26 May 1868. He was educated at Armagh Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin where he gained a M.A. He was employed as Assistant Locomotive Engineer with the G.S.& W. Railway of Ireland, 1896-1911, Chief Mechanical Engineer, 1911-13; Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, 1913-23 and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway, 1923-37. During the Great War he served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps of the Royal Engineers, being commissioned Major on 6 January 1917. For his services he was awarded the C.B.E. (London Gazette 7 January 1918). Maunsell died on 7 March 1944.