Medals to Great War Casualties from the Collection of the late Ian Livesley

Family group to two brothers:

Three: Second Lieutenant Arthur Lawrence Badcock, 6th Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action near St Eloi on 13 October 1915
1914-15 Star (2. Lieut., Yorks. L. I.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (Arthur Lawrence Badcock)

Three: Lieutenant Edmund Downes Badcock, 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was killed in action near Contalmaison on 22 July 1916
1914-15 Star (Lieut., North’n. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (Edmund Downes Badcock) nearly extremely fine (8) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to Great War Casualties from the Collection of the late Ian Livesley.

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Second Lieutenant Arthur Lawrence Badcock was born in June 1894 and educated at Stoke House School and Radley College. He was killed in action on 13 October 1915 and is buried at Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery, Belgium. The Roll of Honour, Volume II states that he was the Machine Gun Officer and that he was killed by a shell. His C.O. wrote ‘He was a very cool man indeed under fire, taking risks absolutely calmly, and yet not foolhardy or rash.’

The battalion war diary for 13 October 1915 states: ‘... The Germans did not retaliate until 5:15pm. They fired about 110 whizbangs at P1 and the top of the communication trench through the Bois Confluent up to 5:30pm. Unfortunately Lieutenant A. A. Badcock was walking along the trench just as this started, and one round hit the trench just as he was passing, killing him.’

Lieutenant Edmund Downes Badcock was born in February 1893 and educated at Radley College and Worcester College, Oxford. He was killed in action near Contalmaison on 22 July 1916 and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.