Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. Dowling, 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (6838 Pte. A Dowling. 4/D.Gds); British War and Victory Medals (D-6838 Pte. A. W. Dowling 4-D. Gds.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Recipients of the 1914 Star.

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Arthur W. Dowling served with the 4th Dragoon Guards during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 August 1914. On 22 August, a squadron of the 4th Dragoons led by Captain C. B. Hornby, D.S.O.), charged a column of Uhlans, capturing a number of prisoners and thus became the first members of the British Expeditionary Force to engage the enemy in action.