Auction Catalogue

18 May 2011

Starting at 12:00 PM

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The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 530

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£430

Family group:

A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Bedingfeld, Devonshire Regiment

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, with 2nd type riband; 1914-15 Star (Major H. H. Bedingfeld, Devon. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major H. H. Bedingfeld), together with a set of related miniature dress medals, the Victory Medal with minor traces of corrosion / fire damage, generally very fine or better

A British Red Cross Society pair awarded to Mrs. Helen Bedingfeld

British Red Cross Society’s Medal
1914-18, in its card box of issue; British Red Cross Society, Member’s 10 Years’ Service Badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘2098’ and named ‘H. Bedingfeld’, with related certificate of issue, extremely fine (10) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Henry Howard Bedingfeld, who was born near Woolwich in May 1859, the son of Major-General Philip Bedingfeld, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 11th Regiment in August 1879 and served variously in the East Indies and the U.K. up until being placed on the Retired List as a Major in May 1907, but not having witnessed active service.

Recalled by his old regiment on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was posted to the 9th Battalion as Second-in-Command and embarked for France in July 1915, aged 56 years, where he served in the trenches until that September, when he returned home to take command of the 11th (Reserve) Battalion, and thence the 44th Training Reserve Battalion in Wiltshire. Awarded the O.B.E., he was demobilised in January 1920, having latterly commanded the 2nd (Volunteer) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment.

Sold with a large quantity of original documentation, including O.B.E. warrant, dated 3 June 1919, and related investiture ticket, dated 20 March 1920, together with an impressive run of career letters (approximately 40), many of a testimonial nature and largely of the Great War period, and including an earlier example from a Lance-Corporal of his Battalion, dated in July 1907, the envelope inscribed by Bedingfeld, ‘My Most valued Testimonial’; a cartoon caricature portrait, dated 1898; his
Field Almanac 1915, with hand drawn trench map pasted down on the inside cover; his Protection Certificate, dated 16 January 1920, and War Office letter regarding his Great War campaign awards, with related application form; together with a B.R.C.S. certificate in the name of his wife, marking her inclusion on the Society’s Roll of Honourable Service, dated 15 October 1918.