Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Private A. W. Bradshaw, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was killed in action in Holland in March 1945

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (5882887 Pte., North’n. R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5882887 Pte., North’n. R.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with a related Northamptonshire Regiment shooting award, bronze-gilt, the reverse inscribed, ‘Pte. A. Bradshaw, 1938’, the first two with several severe edge bruises, otherwise very fine and better (7) £300-350

Albert Walter Bradshaw was killed in action in Holland on 1 March 1945, while serving in the 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. He was 30 years of age, left a widow, Emily Charlotte Annie Bradshaw, of Far Cotton, Northampton, and was buried in the Venray War Cemetery, Holland.

The Northamptonshires were not deployed in any strength during operations on the North West Frontier in 1935, Bradshaw’s relevant Medal & clasp accordingly being a rarity.