Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. G. Bland, 1/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, killed in action, Mesopotamia, 8 March 1916
British War and Victory Medals (3659 Pte., Devon R.); Memorial Plaque (Herbert George Bland) extremely fine (4)
£120-160

Herbert George Bland was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devon, lived in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and enlisted at Bath. Serving with the 1/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment (T.F.) in Mesopotamia he was killed in action on 8 March 1916, aged 27 years. His name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial. Herbert George Bland was the son of George Bland of 6 Norfolk Street, Wisbech, and the late Kate Sophia Bland.

The medals and plaque together with a small badge fitted in a wooden glazed frame, 384 x 298mm.