Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Frederick William Henry Bolland) good very fine £70-90

Frederick William Henry Bolland was born in Forest Gate, Essex, in 1883, and was educated at the Carpenters’ Company School. He served with the 2nd Artists’ Rifles Officer Training Corps, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers on 7 July 1916. He served during the Great War on the Western Front, attached to the 26th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action at St Eloi during the Battle of Messines, whilst attached to 124th Trench Mortar Battery,. on 7 June 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. He is also commemorated on the Ilford War Memorial.