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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 306

(x) Seven: Regimental Sergeant-Major W. A. 'Bill' Eyears, King's Royal Rifle Corps, late Rifle Brigade, who was wounded in November 1914

1914 Star, with slide-on clasp (2875 Cpl. A. Eyears, 3/Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals (2875 C. Sjt. A. Eyears, Rif. Brig.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (2875 C.Q.M. Sjt. A. Eyears, Rif. Brig.); War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (6905253 C.Q.M. Sjt. W. A. Eyears, Rif. Brig.), note single initial on first four, the earlier awards with contact marks and polished, nearly very fine or better (7)


William Albert 'Bill' Eyears was born at Lewes, Sussex on 12 September 1889 and enlisted in the Rifle Brigade in in June 1908.

Embarked for France as a Corporal in the 3rd Battalion in early September 1914, he suffered a bullet wound in his right leg at Bois Grenier on 6 November and was evacuated home. In March 1917, he was appointed Company Q.M. Sergeant in the 8th (Service) Battalion, so he no doubt saw further action.

Immediately after the war, Eyears transferred to the regimental depot at Winchester as Company Q.M. Sergeant but he later took up appointment as Regimental Sergeant-Major of the 12th (County of London) Battalion (Rangers). Discharged to a pension in early 1931, he was commissioned Lieutenant (Q.M.) in the 9th Battalion (Rangers), K.R.R.C. in the same year and was advanced to Captain (Q.M.) on the eve of the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939. He was due to depart for France with the Rangers but was taken ill and died at Northampton in October 1940; sold with further details.


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