Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 249

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£280

1914-15 Star (LZ.1146 J. F. Bunce, P.O., R.N.V.R.) good very fine £100-150

M.C. London Gazette 26 March 1917. ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He carried out a dangerous reconnaissance and obtained most valuable information. He has on many occasions carried out valuable reconnaissance work’.

John Frederick Bunce was born on 5 January 1888. A Bank Cashier by occupation, he entered the R.N.V.R. on 16 December 1914. With the Hawke Battalion in May 1915, he was wounded whilst serving in the Dardanelles, 22 July 1915. Posted to France in 1916. Granted a Temporary Commission as Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. in January 1917 he was posted to the Howe Battalion, B.E.F. Sub-Lieutenant John Frederick Bunce, M.C., Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Divison, died of wounds (G.S.W. to the chest) on 19 February 1917, aged 29 years. He was buried in the Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension. He was the son of James and Kate Maria Bunce of 26 Westcliff, Whitstable, Kent. Sold with copied service papers and modern photograph of his headstone.