The interesting Great War Trio to Lieutenant Philip Timbrell Stanley, 94th Russell's Infantry

The interesting Great War Trio to Lieutenant Philip Timbrell Stanley, 94th Russell's Infantry (previously 15th Canadian Infantry and Royal West Kent Regiment): 1914-15 Star (77622 PTE P. T. STANLEY. 15/CAN:INF:), British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (LIEUT. P. T. STANLEY.), stitched to an associated (non-corresponding) ribbon bar for wearing, very fine. [3]

Philip Timbrell Stanley enlisted in 15^th Canadian Infantry in October 1914 and was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment in August 1915, attachedtothe Indian Army. He servedwith the 94^th Russells Infantry from 1917 to 1919 but was then sent back to the UK owing to some irregular financial transactions. Following the war he became a prolific fraudster styling himself Baron de Beck. He married a shop assistant who assumed the title of Baroness de Beck (her photograph is in the National Portrait Gallery). Stanley was convicted and imprisoned on numerous occasions for fraud and embezzlement including a major casino fraud and numerous articles about his exploits appeared in the newspapers of the day.