Medals from the Collection of Paul and Margaret Faber

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Corporal Alex Bolstridge, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1367 Bmbr: A. Bolstridge. C.242/S.M. Bde: R.F.A.-T.F.); 1914-15 Star (1367. Gnr. A. Bolstridge, R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (1367 Cpl. A. Bolstridge. R.A.); Memorial Plaque (Alex Bolstridge) this neatly holed at 12 o’clock, otherwise good very fine and better (5) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Paul and Margaret Faber.

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M.M. London Gazette 14 November 1916.

Alex Bolstridge died of pneumonia on 2 March 1917, aged 21, and is buried in La Nouveille Communal Cemetery, France.

The following announcement was made in the Birmingham Weekly Post, 20 October 1917:
‘Among the awards handed away by the Duke of Connaught in Birmingham on Sunday was a Military Medal won by the late Corpl-Signaller Alex Bolstridge, R.F.A. (T.F.), which was received by his mother, Mrs Marshall, 50, Grange Rd, King’s Heath, wife of Sergt. W. T. Marshall, attached to King’s Heath Sub-Police Station. Bolstridge, who was only 21, was a member of the local Territorial Artillery, was mobilised on training, and went to France in March, 1915, Bolstridge lay in an observation post for many hours without a break, directing the firing of his battery. The Germans directed their guns upon the place of concealment, but without result. He eventually succumbed to pneumonia in France.’

Sold with copied research and photographs of the memorial tablet in St Joseph’s Church, Moseley.