Special Collections

Sold on 17 September 1999

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The Langham Collection of Medals to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps

David Langham

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№ 826

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17 September 1999

Hammer Price:
£880

Four: Armourer Staff Sergeant J. Bird, Army Ordnance Corps, who died on active service in the Sudan in May 1916

1914-15 Star (A.1185 Armr. S. Sjt., A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (S.Sjt., A.O.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, 2 clasps, Fasher, Darfur 1916, unnamed as issued, together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Joseph Herbert Bird) extremely fine and rare (5) £350-450

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 October 1916 (Sudan): 1185 Armr. Staff Serjt. J. H. Bird, Army Ordnance Corps (deceased).

Joseph Herbert Bird died on active service at El Fasher, Egypt, on 13 May 1916, and is buried in Khartoum War Cemetery, Sudan, East Africa.