Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Driver F. Tipping, Royal Field Artillery

1914 Star (71329 Dvr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (71329 Dvr., R.A.) good very fine (5) £100-140

Sold with a Sports Medal, 39mm., bronze, inscribed, ‘No. 1 Section 49th D.A.C. v. 2nd Belgian Div. Artillery, 23-6-1918. Dr. Tipping. F.’, in case of issue inscribed, ‘Athletic Sports of the 2nd Belgian Division 23rd June 1918’; together to a ‘home-made’ brass identity bracelet, inscribed, ‘FC. Tipping, CE, RFA 71329, Ypres 1915, Somme 1916’.

Together with a Soldier’s Pay Book to 508381 R. G. Groom, 2/1 London Field Ambulance. With the Pay Book is a letter, dated 26 January 1916; two tickets to the ‘Alhambra, 13 Grand Place, Mons’, and a list of friends names and addresses, including that of ‘F. C. Tipping, 16 Henley Road, Ilford.’