Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private T. D. Saunders, Royal Sussex Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (12891 Pte., R. Suss. R.)

1914-15 Star (17734 Pte. J. W. Hempel, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (A. E. Bache, Fmn., M.F.A.; 2 Lieut. H. L. Hall; 9381 Pte. S. H. Booth, R. Ir. Rif.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (12907 C. Sjt. W. Dauble, Essex R.; 26489 Pte. T. C. Beching, Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (865736 Pte. C. G. Thorne, A.S.C.) good very fine and better (9) £100-140

James William Hempel was born in Yarmouth, Norfolk, and living in Norwich, he enlisted at Battersea. Surrey. Serving with the 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, he was killed in action on 3 May 1917. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

Fireman Albert Edward Bache, Mercantile Marine Reserve, was killed in action on 20 January 1918, when the armed boarding steamer Louvain was torpedoed and sunk off Mudros, by the U.C.22. Aged 17 years, he was the son of Albert Edward and Mary Ellen Bache of 386A Mill Street, Liverpool.

‘2 Lieut. H. L. Hall’, possibly 2nd Lieutenant Henry Lewes Hall. M.M., attached 10th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action 30 November 1917.

Stanley Harris Booth was born in Mussone, East India and enlisted at Burma. Serving in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 16 July 1915. He was buried in Y farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier.

Thomas Charles Beeching lived at Barnsbury, Middlesex and enlisted at Holloway. Serving with the 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, he was killed in action in Salonika, 9 May 1917, aged 25 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial. He was the son of Mrs G. Beeching of Tottenham, London and husband of Mrs C. Beard (formerly Beeching) of 11 Rhodes Street, Barnsbury, London.