Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Serjeant A. Stead, Royal Army Service Corps

British War and Victory Medals (M2-077406 Sjt., A.S.C.); Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, good very fine (3)
£150-200

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

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Belgium, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 12 July 1918.

Arthur Stead, aged 25 years, married Edith Bradshaw, aged 26, at Wakefield on 3 September 1904 - at the time of his marriage he was employed as a Sanitary Engineer. At the time of the Great War his family were living at ‘1 Archer Cottages, Sanderson Street, Wakefield.’ Arthur Stead, listed as a retired Hospital Engineer died in Wakefield on 25 May 1964.

Sold with the award document for the Belgian Croix de Guerre - in glazed wooden frame, 66 x 56cm.; a number of original photographs of the period and a number of wartime postcards written by the recipient; marriage and death certificates, with copied m.i.c. and gazette extract.