The Great War trio to First Battle of Ypres casualty Sergeant Francis Joseph Schollick, 1st

The Great War trio to First Battle of Ypres casualty Sergeant Francis Joseph Schollick, 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps: 1914 Star (5964 SJT F. SCHOLLICK. 1/K. R. RIF: C.), good very fine or better; British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (5964 SJT F. SCHOLLICK. K. R. RIF. C.), nearly extremely fine, [3]; together with the Memorial Plaque issued in commemoration of this soldier (FRANCIS JOSEPH SCHOLLICK) in its card case, a small quantity of insignia, and part postal envelopes and slips for the medals, addressed to his widow.

Francis Joseph Schollick was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, and attested for the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1904. He married Annie (née Riley) on the 25th of May 1912 and their daughter Winifred was born in January 1914. He arrived in France with the 1st Battalion K.R.R.C. on the 13th of August 1914, having been promoted to Sergeant six days previously. On the 30th of October Sergeant Schollick's battalion was involved in a major attack near the Passchendaele-Beselare road, part of the 1st Battle of Ypres, and it was in this action that he was killed.