A Collection of Medals to the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar group of three awarded to Private C. V. Waite, 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, attached 41st Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (C-12243 Pte. C. V. Waite. 21/K.R.R.C.); British War and Victory Medals (C-12243 Pte. C. V. Waite. K.R.Rif.C.); together with the recipient’s riband bar bearing a silver rosette on the M.M. riband, good very fine (3) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

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M.M. London Gazette 12 December 1917.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 6 August 1918

Charles Vernon Waite, a native of Pocklington, Yorkshire, was born in 1895, and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. His first Military Medal was awarded for bravery in the field performed whilst attached to the 41st Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers, and his Second Award Bar was awarded whilst serving with his parent unit, the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion.