Pair: Second Lieutenant R. E. T. Huddart, Rifle Brigade, a 1916 casualty

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.) good very fine (2) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of of Great War Medals to the Rifle Brigade.

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Robert Edward Thorne Huddart was educated at Charterhouse. He enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in September 1914 and was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade, Special Reserve, May 1915 and joined the 2nd Bn. in France in November. He was Killed in Action by shell fire 30 June 1916, the eve of the Battle of the Somme and is buried in Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme.

Additionally entitled to 1914-15 Star.