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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 801

(x) Pair: Rifleman C. Rash, King's Royal Rifle Corps

British War and Victory Medals (R-38195 Pte. C. Rash. K. R. Rif. C.), very fine (2)

Claud Rash was born in 1886 at Chelmsford, Essex. He enlisted on 29 December 1916 and served with the 9th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, as it prepared for the assault on Delville Wood. It was on the final day of this engagement that Rash was discharged as a result of trench fever, his MIC noting 'sick'. Rash returned home to Essex and married Rosa Stacey in late 1918, fathering three children, Mary, Jack and John. Rash died on 7 August 1926.

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