Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Armourer Staff Sergeant J. Bird, Army Ordnance Corps, who died on active service in the Sudan in May 1916

1914-15 Star (A.1185 Armr. S. Sjt., A.O.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (S.Sjt., A.O.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, 2 clasps, Fasher, Darfur 1916, unnamed as issued, together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Joseph Herbert Bird) extremely fine and rare (5) £350-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Langham Collection of Medals to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 25 October 1916 (Sudan): 1185 Armr. Staff Serjt. J. H. Bird, Army Ordnance Corps (deceased).

Joseph Herbert Bird died on active service at El Fasher, Egypt, on 13 May 1916, and is buried in Khartoum War Cemetery, Sudan, East Africa.