Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant J. Hepburn, Seaforth Highlanders, who was wounded on the Western Front on 6 May 1917
India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (9279 Lc. Cpl. J. Hepburn 1st. Bn. Sea. Highrs.); 1914 Star, with clasp (9279 Pte. J. Hepburn. 2/Sea: Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (9279 A. Sjt. J. Hepburn. Sea. Highrs.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (9279 Pte. J. Hepburn 1st. Bn. Sea. Highrs.) Regimentally engraved naming with minor correction to surname, nearly very fine

Pair: Private G. W. Bailey, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 27 March 1918
British War and Victory Medals (60189 Pte. G. W. Bailey. North’d. Fus.) about extremely fine (7) £240-£280

James Hepburn attested for the Seaforth Highlanders at Glasgow on 6 November 1905, and served with the 1st Battalion in India from 30 March 1907, and with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 23 August 1914. Appointed Acting Sergeant on 1 May 1917, he suffered a gun shot wound to the knee on 6 May 1917, and was invalided to the U.K. two days later, transferring to the Royal Defence Corps on 3 October 1917. He latterly served with the Labour Corps, and was demobilised at Invergordon on 6 March 1919

George William Bailey was born in Sheffield and attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers at Pontefract, Yorkshire. He served with the 19th (2nd Tyneside Pioneers) Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action during the German Spring Offensive on 27 March 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.

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