Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private S. Beet, Northumberland Fusiliers
1914-15 Star (15795 Pte. S. Beet. North’d Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (15795 Pte. S. Beet. North’d Fus.) good very fine

Three: Private F. E. Wilson, Essex Regiment, later Middlesex Regiment and Royal Engineers, who was wounded on the Western Front on 11 April 1916
1914-15 Star (14882 Pte. F. E. Wilson, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (14882 Pte. F. E. Wilson. Essex R.) minor stain to last, good very fine
Three: Private J. Bamford, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, later Labour Corps, who was twice wounded on the Western Front, on 20 May 1916 and 20 September 1917
1914-15 Star (3503 Pte. J. Bamford, L.N. Lanc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3503 Pte. J. Bamford. L.N. Lanc. R.) the VM worn to high relief, otherwise very fine (9) £120-£160

Sidney Beet attested for the Northumberland Fusiliers and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 August 1915. He later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps.

Francis Edward Wilson was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1894. A clerk by profession, his Army Service Record notes that he attested at London for the Essex Regiment on 4 September 1914, and served in France from 25 July 1915 to 9 May 1916. His first period of service overseas was promptly suspended when suffering a gunshot wound to the neck, face and right thigh on 11 April 1916. Evacuated to England, he transferred to the Middlesex Regiment on 11 November 1916 and later served back in France with the Royal Engineers Railway Troops.

James Bamford, a resident of Preston, Lancashire, served in France from 8 August 1915 to 1 June 1916, and again from 9 February 1917 to 2 October 1917. His Army Service Record notes that he was twice wounded, including a gunshot wound to the right thigh on 20 May 1916, and a second wound on 20 September 1917. The latter was initially judged as ‘slight’, but his medical notes describe a head injury: ‘Depressed fracture skull (old G.S.W.). States that he was wounded in the head in 1917 and had an operation on his head. Suffers from constant and severe right-sided headache.’