Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant C. G. Bound, Gloucestershire Regiment, late West Yorkshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (10842. L. Cpl. C. Bound. W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (10842 Sjt. C. Bound. W. York. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. C. G. Bound. Glouc. R.) nearly very fine, the last extremely rare to unit (4) £240-£280

Clifford George Bound was born in Staverley, Derbyshire, in 1891 and in was 1911 employed as a Mailway Porter Tadcaster. He attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment in August 1914 and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War in Gallipoli from 11 July 1915, and subsequently on the Western Front. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, in June 1917, and was posted for service with the 44th Divisional Signal Company in India (his pre-War trade being a railway signalman). He served with the 44th Divisional Signal Company during the Third Afghan War (one of only a handful of officers and men of the Regiment, all attached to different units, to receive the India General Service Medal), and in the 1939 Register is shown as living in Belford, Northumberland, and still working as a Railway Signalman. He died in 1974.

Sold with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet ‘2nd. Lt. C. Bound. C.E. Gloucesters’; and copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.