Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal J. C. Norman, 23rd (1st Sportsman’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, who was one of the original members who enlisted in the Battalion at the Hotel Cecil, 6 October 1914

1914-15 Star (59 Pte. J. C. Norman. R. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (59 Pte. J. C. Norman. R. Fus.) slight digs to obverse field of BWM, otherwise nearly extremely fine (3) £80-120

John Coham Norman was born in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1863, and in the 1891 census notes his occupation as ‘African Explorer’. He enlisted into the 23rd (1st Sportsman’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, at the Hotel Cecil, Strand, London, on 6 October 1914, and was given the Battalion number 59. He served during the Great War with the Battalion on the Western Front from 16 November 1915, and was appointed Lance-Corporal on 14 January 1916. Subsequently transferring to the Labour Corps on 3 July 1918, he was discharged to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 31 March 1919. He died in Norwich in 1941.

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