1914 Star named 5583 PTE E COURT 3/RIF BRIG, British War & Victory Medals named 5583 A-CPL R E COURT RIF BRIG.
Richard Edward Court was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and as a 18 year old bricklayer improver he attested for the Rifle Brigade numbered 5583 on 5 August 1914. He served in both the 3rd, 4th & 6th Battalions during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 October 1914 to 1915, and in the Balkans from 1915 to 1916. He was discharged at Winchester, no longer physically fit for war service, on 1 December 1917, having suffered from malaria and dysentery, and was awarded a Silver War Badge, no. 279866.
