Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Three: Private F. F. B. Thomas, Royal Army Service Corps, late Royal Field Artillery, who died on 19 February 1919
1914-15 Star (62222 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (62222 Gnr., R.A.); Memorial Plaque (Francis Felix Banks Thomas)

Three: F. L. Thomas, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, extremely fine (lot) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps.

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Francis Felix Banks Thomas was the son of Harry and Eliza Thomas of Frampton-on-Servern. As a Gunner in the R.F.A. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 September 1915. Later, serving with the 1st Base Mechanical Transport Depot, R.A.S.C. he died on 19 February 1919. He was buried in the Bois Guillaume Communal Cemetery Extension.

With damaged medal card boxes of issue and registered envelopes addressed to ‘Mrs E. Howe, 36 West St., Bridgewater, Somerset’; forwarding slip for the 1914-15 Star; card envelope and associated slip for the Memorial Plaque; Cemetery Registers document and two original photographs - one showing Thomas in uniform with his wife and young son Leslie.

Medals to Leslie F. Thomas, R.A.O.C. in forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr F. L. Thomas, 26 West St., Bridgewater, Somerset’, with associated slip, with six original photographs; two identity disks, R.A.O.C. cap badge and two enamelled lapel badges.