Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance-Corporal G. Bailey, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 12 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (26355 Pte. G. Bailey. R. Berks. R.); Memorial Plaque (George Bailey); Memorial Scroll ‘L/Cpl. George Bailey Royal Berkshire Regt.’, mounted in a glazed display fame, the plaque polished, overall nearly very fine (4) £120-£160

George Bailey was born in Stoke-by-Nayland, Essex, and attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Hungerford, Berkshire. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 12 October 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Sold with named Record Office enclosure for the British War and Victory Medals and a privately produced Memorial Scroll, depicting Britannia bestowing a wreath on the recipient’s memorial tablet.