Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private L. E. Arbery, 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment

1914 Star (7510 Pte. L. E. Arberry [sic]. 2/ York: & Lanc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (7510 Pte. L. E. Arbery. Y. & L.R.) good very fine (3) £80-£120

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

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Leonard Ernest Victor Arbery was born in London in 1886 and attested for the York and Lancaster Regiment on 17 November 1903. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 September 1914, and was discharged, Class P, from the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion on 2 April 1917, no longer physically fit for war service, being awarded a Silver War Badge. He died in Fulham in 1930.