Four: Colour Serjeant H. Mappin, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914-15 Star (8053 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (8053 C. Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Horace Mappin) extremely fine (4) £70-90

I.S.M. London Gazette 2 April 1948.

Horace Mappin was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1888. Serving in the 7th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 May 1915. Later discharged. Employed as a Postman from 1927. Awarded the I.S.M. as Postal Inspector at Torquay, Devon. Died in Middlesborough in 1964. With copied m.i.c. and census extracts.