Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lance-Corporal L. J. Bailey, Wiltshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5417 Pte., Wilts. Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (5417 L. Cpl., 2/Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (5417 Pte., Wilts. R.) good very fine (4) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Wiltshire Regiment formed by the late Michael Hayward.

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Louis Joseph Bailey was born in Devizes on 29 September 1881. A Gardener by occupation, he enlisted at Devizes on 29 September 1899. He served in the Boer War and then the Great War, entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 October 1914 and suffering a gunshot wound to the left foot in the latter. He was discharged on 14 December 1918 being surplus to military requirements and was awarded the Silver War Badge.

With copied m.i.c., discharge papers and roll extract.