Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private T. C. Bird, 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry, who died of gas poisoning on the Western Front on 18 July 1916

1914-15 Star (Pte. T. C. Bird 1st Infantry); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte. T. C. Bird. 2nd S.A.I.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Cecil Bird) with flattened named card boxes of issue and O.H.M.S. envelope of transmittal, traces of adhesive to reverse of all, otherwise extremely fine (4) £160-£200

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, The Bernard Harris Collection of Medals to the 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry.

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Thomas Cecil Bird was born in 1893 and attested for the 2nd South African Infantry at Potchefstroom on 19 August 1915, joining the Regiment in Egypt on 29 December 1915. Transferring to France on 15 April 1916, he died of ‘shell gas’ received in action during the Battle of the Somme on 18 July 1916, aged 23. He is buried at Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Sold with copied service record.