Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. Trimble, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, taken Prisoner of War at the Battle of Lys, April 1918

1914-15 Star (C-1051 Pte. E. Trimble. K.R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (C-1051 Pte. E. Trimble. K.R. Rif. C.), together with the recipient’s Church Lads Brigade Service Medal, bronze and enamel, good very fine (4) £80-120

E. Trimble was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, on 13 March 1893, and attested for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 16 November 1914, as part of 16th (Church Lads Brigade) Battalion. He served with his Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, as part of 33rd Division, from 16 November 1915, and was taken Prisoner of War during the Battle of Lys, April 1918, during which his battalion suffered badly, with total casualties of 14 Officers and 514 other ranks killed, wounded, or missing. Repatriated to Hull after the Armistice on 8 December 1918, he died in Stoke-on-Trent on 1 March 1977.

Sold together with a Church Lads Brigade cap badge and a K.R.R.C. Church Lads Brigade Cadets cap badge.