The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Six: Lieutenant B. O. Kesby, York and Lancaster Regiment, late Honourable Artillery Company and Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, killed in action, battle for Caen, 15 July 1944

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 1st Army; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (Lt., Bedfs. Herts.) on H.A.C. ribbon, extremely fine (9) £400-500

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

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Bernard Oliver Kesby was a pre-war Territorial serving in the H.A.C. With the onset of war he was commissioned into the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment. As a Lieutenant & Adjutant attached to the Hallamshire Battalion of the York & Lancaster Regiment, he was killed in action on 15 July 1914 during the battle for Caen. He was killed by shellfire whilst at battalion H.Q. and was buried at St. Manvieu War Cemetery, Cheux, Calvados, near Caen. Lieutenant Kesby was the son of Edgar and Alice Kesby and husband of Laura Kesby of South Norwood, Surrey.

With L.C.C. School Attendance Medal, G.V.R., 1 clasp, 1919-20 (B. O. Kesby); T.A. lapel badge; Maginot Line lapel badge; portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform; medal forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs L. A. J. Kesby, 21 Lincoln Close, Woodside Green, South Norwood, London, SE25’; named card box of issue for the Efficiency Medal; copied letter forwarding the Efficiency Medal with H.A.C. ribbon, dated 9 January 1952; copied telegram to Mrs Kesby informing her of her husband’s death; copied letter to Mrs Kesby from her husband’s battalion commander, dated 21 July 1944; copied named condolence slip; part letter from his daughter, with other copied research.