Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Private A. J. Bendall, Cambridgeshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 22 August 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (326855 Pte. A. J. ----- 1----b: R.) neat erasure of surname and much of unit, but some letters still visible under a loupe, very fine £120-£160

M.M. London Gazette 13 February 1919.

Arthur John Bendall was born in Lode, Cambridgeshire, around 1885. He was killed in action on 22 August 1918 whilst serving with the 1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, and is buried in Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension on the Somme.