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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 90

Three: Second Lieutenant A.W. Rider, Machine Gun Corps, Late Berkshire Yeomanry 1914-15 Star (2152 Pte. A.W. Rider. Berks. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. A.W. Rider.), extremely fine Pair: Second Lieutenant, R.G. Austin, Machine Gun Corps British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. R.G. Austin), extremely fine (5) Estimate £ 200-240 Second Lieutenant Alonzo Ward Rider, born Plymouth, Devon, 1896; enlisted as Private 1st Battalion Berkshire Yeomanry, 16.9.1914; served with the regiment as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 8.4.1915-15.9.1915; reported missing in action in Gallipoli 21.8.1915, and was admitted to hospital at Mudros the following month with blood poisoning; commissioned Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps, 4.9.1916; he was serving with 26th Company M.G.C. on the Western Front when he was reported missing in action again, 12.10.1917, this time he did not return to action; a letter from the recipient´s mother, dated 4.5.1918, gives the following detail, ´The commanding officer (Capt Rigby) wrote at the time and said my son went to some prisoners to tell them to take our wounded on stretchers and was not seen again´; Rider is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Second Lieutenant Robert George Austin, born Shoreham by Sea, 1895; educated at the Municipal Secondary School at Eastbourne and at Brighton; enlisted Private 10th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, 11.10.1915; transferred Machine Gun Corps,1.1.1916 and served with the latter in the French theatre of war, from 11.3.1916; Lance Corporal 1.3.1916; commissioned Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps, 25.5.1917; he was serving with the 257th Company Machine Gun Corps in the Mesopotamian theatre of war when he was killed in action 26.10.1918; he is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

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