Orders, Decorations and Medals

Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut. F. B. Burr) good very fine £40-60

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E..

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Frederick Bonham Burr was born in Hastings on 2 August 1887, the eldest son of the Rev. & Mrs G. F. Burr of Highfields Park, Halesowen, Worcestershire. He was educated at Sandroyd, Cobham; Denstone College and Keble College, Oxford, where he took a M.A. degree. He had been studying for the Church at Cuddesdon but had previously joined the Reserve of Officers in January 1913 after being in the O.T.C. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for active service and on 23 September 1914 he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. He was mortally wounded on 12 March 1915 in the attack on the ‘Hohenzollern Redoubt’ at Spanbroekmolenin. He died the same day in the hospital at Lindenhoek and was buried in the Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Sold with copied research.