Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. Brewster, Royal Garrison Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col. R. F. Brewster.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, privately engraved ‘Major R. F. Brewster. R.G.A.’, with the edge prepared prior to naming, court mounted for display, good very fine (2) £70-£90

Robert Ferdinand Brewster was born in Braintree, Essex, on 16 July 1867. An accountant by profession, he was appointed Major in the Royal Garrison Artillery 2 November 1904 and served in India as Lieutenant Colonel from August 1914. Described in The Hampshire Telegraph and Post as ‘One of those simple-hearted, square-set men, who saw his duty to God and his neighbour most clearly’, Brewster died in 1931.