Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Three: Private F. R. Scruse, Middlesex Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (1675 Pte., Midd’x. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1675 Pte., Midd’x. R.) extremely fine (3) £200-250

Frank Rolfe Scruse was born in Poplar, Middlesex and enlisted at Chelsea. Serving initially as Private 1675 in the Middlesex Regiment and then as Private 62232 in the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), he was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 15 February 1917. He was buried in the amara War Cemetery, Iraq. He was the son of Mr G. W. and Mrs A. Scruse of Preston’s Road, Poplar, London.