Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant T. N. Bowerbank, East Yorkshire Regiment, late Somerset Light Infantry
1914-15 Star (11949 Pte. T. N. Bowerbank. Som: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. T. N. Bowerbank.); Defence Medal, mounted for wear, very fine

Five: Private P. C. James, Gloucestershire Regiment
1914-15 Star (16633 Pte. P. C. James. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (16633 Pte. P. C. James. Glou. R.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Percy C. James) very fine (9) £100-£140

Thomas Norman Bowerbank was born in Exmouth, Devon, on 2 February 1894. He attested into the Somerset Light Infantry for service during the Great War, and served on the Western Front with the 6th Battalion from 21 May 1915. Advanced Lance Corporal, he was commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment on 24 July 1915. Appearing on the 1939 Register as a member of the Emergency Reserve of Officers, he later died on 20 November 1966.

Percy Cecil James, a shop assistant from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was born in 1893. He attested into the Gloucestershire Regiment on 28 December 1914 for service during the Great War and served with the 12th Battalion on the Western Front from 25 November 1915. He was discharged as a consequence of wounds received on 20 April 1917 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, No. 172091. Appearing in the 1939 Register as a Special Police Constable, living in Weston-super-Mare, he died in 1969.

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