World War I

World War I, Group of four to Brigadier Reginald Gordon Ward Rimington, who was killed in the North African campaign in 1941, 1914 Star, clasp 5th Aug - 22nd Nov. 1914 (R. G. W. Rimington, Lieut.), War and Victory Medals, latter with MiD Oak Leaf, Jubilee 1935, brooch mounted, in Spink fitted case together with dress miniatures. Extremely fine. (8) Reginald Gordon Ward Rimington (1891-1941), son of Lt. General Sir Michael Frederic Rimington. It would seem that the recipient's World War II Medals were never claimed. Commissioned 3 February, 1911, Lieutenant, 6 November, 1912, he served with the 6th Dragoons and Command Staff during the Great War and was three times MiD [France,"For gallant and distinguished conduct in the field," London Gazette, 15 June, 1916; "Distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty", 20 May 1918 and 20 December, 1918]. Captain 23 December, 1919, transferred to Territorial Forces, 1920. He married Irene Beatrice Shaw-Stewart 1901-1971) in 1926 [it is her mother's medals that appear as Lot 444]. With the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, Rimington was Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Regiment, 1938-1940; Instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School, 1940; now Brigadier, serving with General Sir Archibald Wavell's Cyrenaica Command, Rimington was Commanding Officer 3rd Amoured Brigade, North Africa, 1940-1941. During the withdrawal from western Cyrenaica he was captured on the 8th of April 1941, together with his second-in-command, with whom he had been travelling when their car rolled over. He died of wounds, probably injuries from the car crash, shortly after his capture. Photocopy copied of the London Gazettes and other papers and extracts sold with lot.