The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 3rd Regiment, South African Infantry

Memorial Plaque (2) (Vernon Liddell Adams; Wallace John Pearse) traces of adhesive to reverse of both, nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 3rd Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Vernon Liddell Adams was born in Leeds in 1896 and attested for the 3rd South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 17 August 1915. He joined the Regiment on the Western Front 7 June 1916 and was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on 19 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Wallace John Pearse was born in Sherborne, Dorset, around 1894, and attested for the South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 1 September 1915. Posted to the Western Front, his papers record a gunshot wound to the left scrotum on 9 April 1917 and evacuation to Eastbourne to recover. He returned to the trenches with the 3rd Regiment and was killed in action on 19 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold with copied service records for both recipients and a fine portrait photograph of Pearse in military uniform.