Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Warrant Officer Class II R. Yale, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

1914-15 Star (6843 Sjt. R. Yale. L. N. Lan. R.); British War and Victory Medals (6843 W.O. Cl. 2. R. Yale. L. N. Lan. R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (3846610 W.O. Cl. II. R. Yale. Loyal R.) mounted court-style for display, good very fine (4) £90-£120

Richard Yale, a labourer from Liverpool, was born in Newport, Shropshire, around January 1881. He attested into the South Lancashire Regiment Militia on 7 July 1902, before attesting into the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment at Preston, a few months later on 4 September. Appointed Sergeant on 26 October 1910, he served in East Africa with 2nd Battalion from 16 October 1914 and fought at Tanga, ‘The Battle of the Bees’, before later service on the Western Front from 2 May 1917. Post-War, he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in 1921 and advanced Regimental Sergeant Major on 9 February 1921, before his discharge on 3 September 1923. In civilian life he worked as a Barrack Warden in Oxford, and died in Walmer, Kent, in 1953.

Sold with copied service papers, and copied regimental journal extracts.