Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Brevet Major G. B. Bosanquet, 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, who was wounded at Festubert in December 1914 and again in the attack on Aubers Ridge in May 1915, and killed in action on the first day of the battle of the Somme

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Capt. G. B. Bosanquet. Gloucestershire Regt.’; 1914 Star (Lieut. G. B. Bosanquet. Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Bt. Major G. B. Bosanquet.) Legion of Honour, 5th Class breast badge, silver, gilt and enamels, nearly extremely fine (5) £1800-2200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Militaria to the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th and 61st Foot).

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M.C. London Gazette 23 June 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June and 22 June 1915.

Legion of Honour London Gazette 24 February 1916.

Graham Bromhead Bosanquet was born at Liandinabo, Herefordshire, on 17 November 1885, only son of Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., Royal Navy. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in February 1905. He served in France with the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment from 2 November 1914, being wounded at Givenchy on 20 December. He was again wounded in the attack on Aubers Ridge on 9 May 1915. He was promoted Brevet Major on 21 April 1916 and killed in action on 1 July 1916. He is buried in Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boiselle.