Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private B. Harding, Gloucestershire Regiment, who died of wounds on the Somme on 1 November 1916
1914-15 Star (15258 Pte. B. Harding, Glouc:R.); British War and Victory Medals (15258 Pte. B. Harding. Glouc. R.) very fine

Pair: Private S. Gibbs, Devonshire Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (74048 Pte. S. Gibbs. Devon. R.) very fine

British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (35065 Pte. E. A. Bradley. R.W. Fus.; 27142 Pte. E. W. Gowers. Dorset. R.) first with lid of named card box of issue; Victory Medal 1914-19 (14099 Pte. F. C. Baulcombe. Wilts. R.); together with a Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘147378’, this lacking pin, generally good very fine (8) £100-£140

Bertie Harding was born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment at Cirencester. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 July 1915, and died of wounds on 1 November 1916, aged 20. He is buried at Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France.

Sold with a Gloucestershire Regiment cap badge.

Sidney Gibbs attested for the Devonshire Regiment and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 4 December 1919.

Frederick Clifford Baulcombe was born at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, in 1894 and attested for the Wiltshire Regiment at Birmingham. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 September 1915, and later served in Salonika. He was killed in action on 22 November 1916 and is buried at Doiran Military Cemetery, Greece.

Silver War Badge no. 147378 was awarded to 20425 Private Arthur Peart, Worcestershire Regiment, who was discharged due to sickness on 17 March 1917.