Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Trooper B. L. Bell, Household Battalion and Guards Machine Gun Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2799 Tpr. B. L. Bell. Household Bn.) good very fine (2) £60-£80

Bertie Leonard Bell was born in Honingham, Norfolk, on 10 February 1897 and attested for the Household Battalion on 2 March 1916. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front, before transferring to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment, and was discharged due to wounds on 2 November 1918, being awarded a Silver War Badge no. B48,469. He died in East Dereham, Norfolk, in September 1981.

Sold with a Household Cavalry Battalion cap badge; a Guards Machine Gun Corps cap badge; and copied research.