Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Bombardier A. S. Southall, Royal Field Artillery, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 30 May 1917

1914-15 Star (52808 Gnr: A. S. Southall: R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (52808 A-Bmbr. A. S. Southall. R.A.) good very fine (3) £50-£70

Arthur Sidney Southall was born in Norbury, Staffordshire, in November 1889 and attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Newport, Shropshire, serving with ‘C’ Battery, 106th Brigade, 24th Division during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 August 1915. Promoted Acting Bombardier, he died of wounds on 30 May 1917 and is buried at Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium. It was also on that same day that Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton (Master of Belhaven) took over the 106th Brigade (he was later killed commanding that unit on 31 March 1918).