CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 786
Pair: Private H. G. Bland, 1/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, killed in action, Mesopotamia, 8 March 1916 BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (3659 Pte., Devon R.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Herbert George Bland) extremely fine (4)
£120-160
Herbert George Bland was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devon, lived in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and enlisted at Bath. Serving with the 1/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment (T.F.) in Mesopotamia he was killed in action on 8 March 1916, aged 27 years. His name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Herbert George Bland was the son of George Bland of 6 Norfolk Street, Wisbech, and the late Kate Sophia Bland.
The medals and plaque together with a small badge fitted in a wooden glazed frame, 384 x 298mm. 787
Pair: Private F. G. Bond, Royal Marine Light Infantry, killed in action, France, 26 October 1917 BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Ply-1723 -S- Pte., R.M.L.I.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Frederick George Bond) extremely fine (3) £120-160
Private Frederick George Bond, 2nd Royal Marine Battalion Royal Naval Division, was killed in action in France on 26 October 1917, aged 19 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial. He was the son of Mr & Mrs E. Bond of 39 Belmont Rise, Maidenhead.
Medals and plaque in a wooden glazed frame, 478 x 305mm.; with a named commemorative scroll in wooden glazed frame, 322 x 217mm.
788
Pair: Miss E. M. Bell, Voluntary Aid Detachment BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (E. M. Bell, V.A.D.); together with an ‘Army Service 1916, Army Canteens Women’ Badge, bronze, reverse numbered, ‘5013’, pin-backed
Pair: attributed to Miss S. Morton-Bell DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, unnamed, extremely fine (5)
£80-100
Medals to Eveline Marion Bell with named lids to card boxes of issue; a slip bearing British War and Victory Medal ribbon samples, and two photographs of the recipient.
Medals to S. Bell with W.W.2 medal forwarding slip; part of the address label from the forwarding box, named to ‘Miss S. Morton-Bell, One Beauchamp Ave, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.’
Also with a ‘V.A.D.’ cloth badge and a ‘V.A.D. General Service Scottish Branch’ cloth badge. 789
Three: Warrant Officer Class 2 F. Beale, Royal Engineers BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS (298915 W.O. Cl. 2, R.E.); ARMYMERITORIOUS SERVICEMEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (WR-60165 Sjt., R.E.) good very fine (3)
£140-180
M.S.M. London Gazette 16 October 1919. ‘.... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Forces in East Africa.’ With copied gazette extract and m.i.c.
790 791
Three: Serjeant S. G. Pomeroy, Royal Engineers BRITISHWAR AND VICTORYMEDALS (476423 Sjt., R.E.); ARMYMERITORIOUS SERVICEMEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (476423 Sjt., 461/W. Rid. Fd. Coy. R.E.) mounted as worn, very fine (3)
£100-140
Pair: Private E. Ratcliffe, Royal Lancaster Regiment, who was killed in action in Salonika in September 1918 BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (26179 Pte. E. Ratcliffe, R. Lanc. R.), together with related MEMORIAL PLAQUE (Ernest Ratcliffe), and Buckingham Palace memorial scroll, the whole contained in two old glazed wooden frames, good very fine (Lot)
£180-220
Ernest Ratcliffe, who was born in Stepney, the son of a Police Constable, was killed in action in the battle of Doiran on 19 September 1918, while serving in the 9th Battalion, Royal Lancaster Regiment. One of numerous casualties suffered that day, when the Allies stormed a 2000 ft. high mountain ridge defended by the Bulgarians from a series of bunkers and fortresses. He was 32 years of age, and the husband of Alice Louisa (nee Martinali) who, tragically, died of influenza a few weeks later, leaving their three orphaned children who were placed into care in Norfolk. Ratcliffe has no known grave and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece; sold with a large quantity of research carried out by his descendants, including additional information on the Martinali family, originally from Switzerland.
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