The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards

Three: Private W. Clements, Bedfordshire Regiment, who was wounded at Givenchy in May 1915

1914 Star (4-6937 Pte. W. Clements. 2/Bedf: R.); British War and Victory Medals (6937 Pte. W. Clements. Bedf. R.), suspension ring on VM. distorted, otherwise good very fine (3) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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William Clements attested for the Bedfordshire Regiment at Hitchin on 16 February 1914 and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 November 1914, receiving a gunshot wound to the right shoulder at Givenchy in May 1915. He later served in India, contracting malaria in 1917. He transferred to the East Surrey Regiment with service No. SR3/7707 in September 1918, and was demobilised in December 1919.