Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain A. B. Christopherson, Welsh Regiment, attached Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was wounded in action on the Western Front in 1918

1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. B. Christopherson. Welsh. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. B. Christopherson.) very fine (3) £100-£140

Arnold Bayley Christopherson was born in Lewisham in 1892, the son of merchant William Bayley Christopherson of ‘Bondicarr’, Blackheath Park, London. Educated at Uppingham School where he was a member of the O.T.C., Christopherson was appointed to a commission as Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Welsh Regiment 17 December 1914. Posted to France as Lieutenant 18 August 1915 attached to the 1/4th (Denbighshire) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, he witnessed action with the Pioneers at the Battle of Loos from 25 September to 8 October 1915, and was later present during the Battle of the Somme. Transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment, Christopherson was promoted Temporary Captain 27 April 1917 and was later wounded in action in 1918 during the advance on the Hindenburg Line.

Christopherson survived the Great War and later worked as Managing Director of Thomas Hubbock & Son Ltd., paint manufacturers. Retired to Cooden Beach in East Sussex, he died in 1957.

Sold with a copied group photograph of the 12th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, dated February 1915 and prior to deployment overseas, the recipient clearly identified.