A medal awarded to a British soldier killed during the Easter Rising after he was mistaken for a Sinn Fein spy has sold at auction for £1,300.
Lieutenant Basil Worswick died on April 29 1916 at the Guinness Brewery in Dublin after he was confronted by a guard.
He served for the King Edward’s Horse, a cavalry regiment of the British Army.
Auction house representative Christopher Mellor-Hill said: “The medal attracted a lot of interest and was bought by a collector who had owned Lieutenant Worswick’s other two World War One medals for over 30 years and has been looking for his 1914-15 Star all this time, so we are very pleased to have been able to reunite them at long last.”
Medal awarded to British soldier killed during Easter Rising sold for £1,300
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