An unusual campaign group of three awarded to Acting Serjeant T. H. Gillard, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, who was one of 101 men drawn from units of 3rd Division, who volunteered for service with the 3rd Divisional Cyclist Corps This Company, which was attached to B Squadron, 15th Hussars, was continuously in the forefront of all scouting and patrol activities across 3rd Divisions entire front, and it was during one such patrol carried out by this unit in the early hours of the 21 August 1914, that Private John Parr, 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, was to become the first British soldier to be killed in action in the Great War, when, along with another cyclist he was sent on reconnaissance to the village of Obourg, north-east of Mons to locate the enemy, during which the two cyclists encountered an enemy cavalry patrol, and in the process of giving covering fire to his comrade, Parr was mortally wounded 1914 Star, clasp (13444 Pte T. Gillard. 4/R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (13444 A. Sjt. T. Gillard. R. Fus.), very fine (3)
