Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel R. Griffith, 6th (Carnarvon and Anglesey) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, later Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (Capt. R. Griffith. R.W.F.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. R. Griffith.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, complete with brooch bar, mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £400-£500

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 February 1919 and 5 June 1919.

Richard Henry Griffith was the son of Dr Samuel Griffith and was educated at Clifton and Clare College, Cambridge. After qualifying as M.R.C.S.Eng. from the London Hospital in 1902 he settled at Portmadoc, where his father also was in practice. During the Great War he held a captain’s commission in the 6th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was present at the landing at Suvla Bay in 1915. After being wounded and invalided home he was transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. He was twice mentioned in despatches and gained the rank of brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. Dr Griffith, like his father, was a justice of the peace for the county of Carnarvon, and he was a medical referee for the Ministry of Pensions. He died at Carnarvon on 21 May 1927.

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