Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private E. Brompton, Lincolnshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (13341 Pte., Linc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (13341 Pte., Linc. R.), ‘Limc. R.’ on B.W.M., this with loose suspension rod; Lincolnshire Regiment cap badge, very fine and better (lot) £80-100

Edward Brompton was born in 1891 and enlisted for service in the Lincolnshire Regiment on 4 September 1914. Serving with the 4th Battalion Lincolnshire, he was posted ‘missing’ on 15 April 1918 and was later found to be a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 9 March 1919. At the time of his capture, his wife was living at ‘15 May Road, Twickenham’.

Sold with a quantity of original papers, including, recipient’s Soldiers’ Small Book with enclosed ‘Will’; War Office forms (2) informing his wife that he was ‘missing in action’; Newspaper cutting, in which his wife and mother request information; Red Cross cards (2) re. their efforts to trace his whereabouts; letter written by his officer to his wife; another from an officer a friend of the recipient; wartime postcards (7); portrait photograph; Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; recipient’s Leave or Duty Ration Book, December 1918-February 1919; Released Prisoner of War Card (unused); Field Service Post card (unused); other wartime cards (3); slips re. medals (2); ‘Buckingham Palace’ Welcome home letter; sundry forms re. war pension and gratuity; Programme of the 1946 Royal Performance at the Palladium; two theatre posters.