Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 329

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£1,400

Three: Company Sergeant-Major A. C. Brid, Royal Irish Fusiliers and Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (7-22056 Sjt. A. C. Bird, R. Ir. Fus.); Special Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (2520 C.S. Mjr. A. C. Bird, 1/R. Guernsey L.I.) minor official correction to unit on last, otherwise extremely fine £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Special Reserve L.S. & G.C. notified in Army Order 339 of September 1919, the only such medal to the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry.

Adolphus Charles Bird was born in 1882, and was a carpenter and joiner by trade. He served for many years in the Channel Islands Militia, as a Bandsman with the 1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. He served during the Great War in the 2nd Guernsey Service Company, attached to the 7th Royal Irish Fusiliers, which left Guernsey for England in mid-October 1915 prior to proceeding to France for active service with the 29th Division. Bird was amongst 16 men of the Royal Guernsey L.I. to be awarded a parchment certificate for the ‘Defence of Passchendaele’, issued by the 29th Division for Gallant Conduct and Devotion to Duty in the Field. Bird was discharged from the Royal Irish Fusiliers upon demobilization in April 1919 and transferred to the Army Reserve, ‘an excellent W.O. and good C.S.M.’

The medals are accompanied by their original named card boxes of issue, R.I.F., R.G.L.I. and R.G.M. identity discs (4), Royal Guernsey Militia identity card (Bandsman, April 1911), Certificate of Transfer to Reserve on Demobilization, Certificate of Employment during the War, and various other Passes and documents.