Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (2121 Pte. E. Bell. 22-Bn. A.I.F.); Australia Service Medal (WX39766 G. A. Teates) minor edge bruising to first, this very fine, the second nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90

Ernest Bartrop Bell was born at Sheffield, Yorkshire, and having emigrated to Australia attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 26 January 1915. He served in the 22nd Battalion, Australian Infantry, 4th Reinforcement, embarking from Melbourne in H.M.A.T. Hororata on 27 September 1915. Wounded in the leg, he was later killed in action on the Western Front when a shell exploded in his dugout on 30 June 1916. He is buried at Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle d’Armentieres, France.

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George Arthur Teates was born at Wonnerup, Western Australia, on 3 August 1924 and served during the Second World War as a Lance Corporal with the 2nd/48th Australian Infantry Battalion. He was killed in action at Tarakan, Borneo, on 2 June 1945, aged 20, and is buried at Labuan War Cemetery, Malaysia.

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