WW1 11th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment Officer’s Group of Three Medals. Awarded to Second Lieute

WW1 11th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment Officer’s Group of Three Medals. Awarded to Second Lieutenant later Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Harold Merryweather. Comprising: 1914/15 Star ‘PS-3026 Pte R.H. Merryweather R.Fus’, British War Medal, Victory Medal ‘2 Lieut R.H. Merryweather’ Mounted as originally worn, with a small quantity of research. Reginald Howard Merryweather was born in London in 1894, in 1912 he emigrated to Canada to start farming and returned to Britain to answer his mother country call in 1914. Enlisted into the Public Schools Bn of the Royal Fusiliers. He landed in France with the Battalion in November 1915 and was selected for a commission, and was appointed a 2Lt in the 11th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment in August 1916. Returning to France he was attached to the 7th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment and on the 3rd November during the attack on the German Zenith Trench he was blown up and buried by a shell. He returned to Blighty suffering from back injuries and shell shock. Passed by the Medical board for home service only he was attached to the Royal Defence Corps 51st DLI at Saffron Walden. Surviving the war he was awarded the Silver War Badge and with his new wife returned to Canada. At the outbreak of WW2 he once again volunteered for service and by the end of the war held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel commanding A-20 Military Training Camp Alberta.