A Collection of Medals for the Gallipoli Campaign

Three: Private G. Bemrose, Lincolnshire Regiment, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 20 November 1915
1914-15 Star (11031 Pte. G. Bemrose. Linc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (11031 Pte. G. Bemrose Linc. R.) BWM unofficially renamed, very fine

Pair: Private M. Bradley, East Yorkshire Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War at Gallipoli
British War and Victory Medals (16405 Pte. M. Bradley. E. York. R.) nearly very fine

Pair: Private H. J. Johnson, Essex Regiment, who died of wounds at Gallipoli on 17 August 1915
British War and Victory Medals (1829 Pte. H. J. Johnson. Essex R.) very fine (7) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Gallipoli Campaign.

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George Bemrose, as platelayer, was born at East Barkwith in 1893 and attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment at Louth on 29 August 1914. Posted to the 6th Battalion, he disembarked at Gallipoli on 18 July 1915 and is recorded in his Army Service Record as suffering a scalp wound on 21 August 1915. He remaining on the Peninsula and was later killed in action on 20 November 1915. He is buried at Azmak Cemetery, Suvla, Turkey.

Michael Bradley was born in 1890 and lived in Newcastle. He attested for the East Yorkshire Regiment and served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War at Gallipoli from 14 July 1915, his name being later included in a list of British Prisoners of War in Turkey forwarded by the Ottoman Red Crescent through the International Committee of the Red Cross at Geneva under the date 22 February 1916. Released upon the cessation of hostilities, he was transferred to Army Reserve in 1919.

Harry James Johnson was born at Goldhanger, Essex, in 1897, and attested for the Essex Regiment, at Tolleshunt D’Arcy on the Blackwater estuary. He served with the 5th Battalion during the Great War at Gallipoli from 9 August 1915; disembarked via flat-bottom boats at “A” Beach, Suvla Bay on 9 August 1915, Johnson and his comrades soon found themselves facing determined Turkish resistance. Mortally wounded, he died of wounds just a few days later on 17 August 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Helles Memorial, Turkey.