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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 296

(x) Five: Hon. Captain (Q.M.) R. H. 'Harry' Paul, Royal Berkshire Regiment, late King's Royal Rifle Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (8098 Clr.-Serjt. H. Paul, K.R.R.C.); 1914-15 Star (A-1188 S. Mjr. R. H. Paul, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (Q.M. & Lieut. R. H. Paul); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (8089 C. Sjt. R. H. Paul, K.R.R.C.), generally very fine (5)

Robert Henry 'Harry' Paul was born at South Mimms, Barnet, Hertfordshire in 1869 and originally served as a Private in the 3rd Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps. Thereafter a regular soldier in the K.R.R.C., he appears to have served in the 4th Battalion in South Africa at the end of the Boer War and as Colour-Sergeant - later Sergeant-Major - in the 7th (Service) Battalion in France. He was subsequently appointed Hon. Lieutenant (Q.M.) in the summer of 1916 and ended the war as Hon. Captain (Q.M.) in the 12th (Labour) Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment.

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