Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Four: Staff Sergeant H. Bisley, Army Pay Corps, later 9th Battalion, London Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 12 May 1917
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Natal (518, Serjt. H. Bisley, A.P.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (518 S.Serjt: H. Bisley. A.P.C.); British War and Victory Medals (5243 Pte. H. Bisley. 9-Lond. R.) very fine

Pair: Worker Alice M. M. Bisley, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps
British War and Victory Medals (1798 Wkr. A. M. M. Bisley. Q.M.A.A.C.) good very fine (6) £200-£240

Horace Bisley, a native of Kilburn, Middlesex, attested for the Army Pay Corps and served as a Staff Sergeant with them in South Africa during the Boer War. He was discharged on 14 November 1902. Following the outbreak of the Great War he attested for the London Regiment, and served as a Lance-Corporal with the 9th Battalion (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 12 May 1917, and is buried in Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France.

Mrs. Alice Mary Maud Bisley, the widow of Horace Bisley, was born in London on 11 November 1880, and attested for Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps on 16 July 1917. She served with them during the Great War from 14 August 1917, and was discharged on 21 October 1918.