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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 78

India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., three clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Wazirstan 1919-21 (Lieut. E. Wyrall. S & T. CPS.), nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 200-250 Lieutenant Reginal Everard Wyrall (1878-1933), educated privately at Ryde House, Ripley and Schorne College; served in the South African War, 1899-1902; Wyrall voluntarily donned rags and went into the casual wards of Workhouses, breaking stones and picking oakum, in order to report on State treatment of ´´down-and-outs´´, his investigations were published in the Daily Express, 1908; served during the Great War and was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant Royal Army Service Corps, 26.10.1916; after further service on the North West Frontier Wyrall went on to become a military historian and author of note, writing under the name of ´´Everard Wyrall´´, his publications include: A Concise History of the War; History of the Second Division, 1914-18, 2 vols; History of the West Yorkshire Regiment 1914-18, 2 vols; History of the 62nd (W.R.) Division, 1914-18, 2 vols; History of the Somerset Light Infantry, 1914-18; The Die Hards in the Great War; History of the 30th (How.) Battery, R.F.A., 1914-18; The East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great, 1914-18; The King´´s Regiment in the Great War; The Lincolnshire Regiment in the War, 1914-18; The Duke of Cornwall´´s Light Infantry, 1914-18; The Gloucestershire Regiment, 1914-18; The 19th Division, 1914-18; The 17th Royal Fusiliers, 1914-19.

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