Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Acting Sergeant F. Read, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Rifle Brigade, who was Mentioned in Despatches

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony, top clasp a tailor’s copy, unofficially attached (6753 Pte. F. Read, ,Rifle Brigade); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6753 Pte. F. Read. Rifle Brigade.); 1914 Star, with clasp (2435 Pte. F. Read. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2435 A. Sjt. F. Read. R.A.M.C.) edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £240-£280

M.I.D. London Gazette, 30 December 1918.

Frank Read attested into the Rifle Brigade and served in South Africa during the Boer War with the 2nd Battalion. He later attested into the Royal Army Medical Corps for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 16 August 1914. Advanced Acting Sergeant, he was Mentioned in Despatches for his work on the Western Front, whilst serving with the 16th Sanitation Squadron.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts; a Rifle Brigade cap badge; and a R.A.M.C. cap badge, the slider scratched ‘Palmer 699’.