War Medals

CAPTAIN RALPH NORMAN TYRRELL, 21ST.LONDON REGIMENT - LATE LANCASHIRE YEOMANRY ATTACHED KING'S AFRICAN RIFLES :

British War Medal; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut.); Efficiency Decoration,GVR.,in silver and silver gilt,top bar,'Territorial' (unnamed) : (RALPH NORMAN TYRRELL - Born in 1889 at Wandsworth, London: Commissioned from Cadet into the Lancashire Hussars as 2nd. Lieutenant (On probation) from 19 December 1916: Transferred into the 2nd.Bn.The Liverpool Regiment as Lieutenant and then to the Lancashire Yeomanry: He entered the War in German East Africa in December 1917, attached to the 4th.(Uganda)Battalion,King's African Rifles: Transferred into the 21st. London Regiment (1st.Surrey Rifles)from 24 August 1921 and was promoted to Captain on 21 May 1925:To Territorial Army Reserve on 16 December 1933 and retired on reaching age limit on 17 February 1939: He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in the London Gazette dated, 27 February 1934: He died in 1953 at Lambeth,London, at the age of 64 years.) : Sold with verification and copy London Gazette entries: Mounted on brooch-bar as worn: Scarce GVF - £345