Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Temporary Corporal R. Mulvaney, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action with the 8th Battalion during the German “liquid fire attack” at Hooge in July 1915

1914 Star (5071 Pte., 3/Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (5071 T. Cpl., Rif. Brig.), good very fine (3) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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Raymond Mulvaney, who was born in Bermondsey, Surrey, was killed in action in the German “liquid fire attack” at Hooge on 30 July 1915, while serving in ‘A’ Company of the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade - an action that resulted in battalion casualties of nearly 500 men killed, wounded or missing and the award of the V.C. to 2nd Lieutenant Sydney Woodroffe. Mulvaney has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.