Pair: Acting Corporal J. F. Bell, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, who was wounded on the Western Front on 9 May 1915
1914-15 Star (17576 Pte. J. F. Bell. Notts: & Derby: R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (17576 Pte. J. F. Bell. Notts. & Derby. R.) good very fine

1914-15 Star (Gnr. W. Hamilton. R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2. Lieut. P. L. Barry.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (181329 Gnr. H. Bater. R.A.; 106660 Gnr. A. R. Harley. R.A.; 63043 Dvr. T. Hartley. R.A.; S-255419 Pte. S. J. Deverson. A.S.C.); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, with Defence Council enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. W. J. Kent, 40 Lippits Hill, Langdon Hills, Basildon, Essex, SS16 6LN’, the last a somewhat later issue; minor edge bruising, generally very fine or better (9) £100-£140

Joseph Frederick Bell was born in Nottingham in 1891 and attested there for the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment on 25 September 1914. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 March 1915, and was wounded by gun shot to the scalp on 9 May 1915. Subsequently serving at home, he was appointed Acting Corporal on 15 June 1916, before transferring to the Army Reserve on 11 March 1917. He was discharged on account of his wounds on 6 April 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

William Hamilton was commissioned Gunner in the Royal Navy 31 October 1901, and was awarded a Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal in 1904 , when, as a Gunner in H.M.S. Emerald, he rescued a woman from drowning: ‘On the 15 April 1904, a woman accidentally fell overboard from a launch at Queenstown, the depth being 60 feet, and the night dark. Hamilton jumped in from another launch, caught the woman, and swam with her to shore, 200 yards distant’ (R.H.S. case no. 33,189).

Hamilton subsequently served during the Great War in the Torpedo Gunboat H.M.S. Seagull, and later in the Torpedo Boat Destroyer H.M.S. Acheron, and was advanced Chief Gunner on 31 October 1916.

Percy Leo Barry was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Fusiliers on 11 February 1917.

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