Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant J. E. Bottomley, Royal Flying Corps, late Wiltshire Regiment and Royal Engineers

1914-15 Star (218 Spr. J. E. Bottomley. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. E. Bottomley.) edge bruise to BWM otherwise nearly very fine (3) £60-£80

John Edward Bottomley, a draughtsman with the Great Western Railway at Swindon, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire on 13 July 1894. He attested into the Royal Engineers for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front from 21 January 1915. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 28 September 1915, he transferred to the 1/4th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment and was later attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He died in Bath, Somerset, on 12 August 1952.

Sold with copied Medal Index Card.