Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A group of eleven miniature dress medals named and attributed to Major F. H. Bradley, V.C., Royal Field Artillery

Victoria Cross, reverse centre inscribed, ‘26 /9/1901’, suspension bar reverse inscribed, ‘F. H. Bradley’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Talana, Def. of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps; Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906; 1914-15 Star, reverse inscribed, ‘Lieu. F. H. Bradley V.C. Wit. Rifles’; British War and Victory Medals; Coronation 1937; Colonial Auxiliary Force Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., with top bar; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R., these mounted for wear; together with a Somme Commemorative Medal, bronze, generally nearly very fine (11) £500-700

V.C. London Gazette 27 December 1901.

‘On 26 September 1901 at Itala, South Africa, there was a call for volunteers to carry ammunition up the hill. To do this, a space of about 150 yards swept by a heavy cross-fire, had to be crossed. A driver and a gunner came forward and started, but half way across the driver fell wounded. Driver Bradley and the gunner, without hesitation, ran out, and while the injured man was carried to cover, Driver Bradley, with another volunteer, succeeded in getting the ammunition up the hill.’ (Ref. The Register of the Victoria Cross).

With copied research held in a folder; also an original letter from a member of the recipient’s family and the booklet, For Valour a South African Victoria Cross, by P. E. Bradley.