Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines

Six: Captain C. H. Sell, London Rifle Brigade

1914 Star, with clasp (8298 L.Cpl., 5/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut.); Defence & War Medals; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., with additional service bar (8298 Cpl.-L.Sjt., 5-Lond. R.) together with silver London Rifle Brigade shooting medal (H.Q. Wing, Sergt., 1925) very fine or better (7) £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

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Charles Henry Sell was born on 30 April 1889, and educated at Dulwich College. He studied accountancy 1907-11, and joined his father’s advertising firm, Sells Ltd, in London in 1911, also spending a year in Winnipeg, Canada, before returning to London in 1914. He became a director of the firm in 1919. Sell joined the London Raifle Brigade as a rifleman in May 1907 and was mobilized on 4 August 1914. He was wounded twice during the war and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the London Rifle Brigade in January 1916. During the Second War he served as a Captain in the Rifle Brigade, T.A.R.O.