Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private C. F. Burt, 16th Battalion (Cardiff City) Welsh Regiment, late Bedfordshire Regiment, who died of wounds, France, 8 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (31742 Pte., Bedf. R.); Memorial Plaque (Cecil Frewen Burt) this in card envelope, extremely fine (4) £160-200

Cecil Frewen Burt was born in Ramsgate, Kent, lived in Rouston, Hertfordshire and enlisted at Bedford. Initially serving as Private 31742 in the Bedfordshire Regiment, he later served as Private 55236 in the Welsh Regiment. Serving in the 16th Battalion (Cardiff City), he died of wounds in France on 8 October 1917, aged 26 years. He was buried in the Estaires Communal Cemetery. He was the husband of Jane Burt, of 1 Florence Terrace, East Cliff, Ramsgate.

With a miniature portrait of the recipient in a metal casing, this set within a fitted case; together with the named card box of issue for the medals, with damaged registered envelope addressed as above; slip to accompany the plaque and named commemorative scroll in tube addressed as above. Also with Imperial War Graves Commission photograph of his original grave cross and a modern photograph of his later headstone; with other photographs. With copied m.i.c., roll extracts; war diary extracts and casualty details.