Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Pair: Private F. Waterhouse, 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment, killed in action, 7 July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (32148 Pte., Manch. R.); Memorial Plaque (Fred Waterhouse)

Eight: Sergeant F. B. Waterhouse, Royal Air Force

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, N. Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, these privately engraved, ‘551635 Cpl. F. B. Waterhouse’; General Service 1918-62, G.VI.R., 2 clasps, Malaya, Arabian Peninsula (551635 Cpl., R.A.F.) second clasp loose; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (50551635 Sgt., R.A.F.); Royal Air Force L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (551635 Sgt., R.A.F.) mounted as worn

Four: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd issue, Civil Division, Member’s (M.B.E.) breast badge, silver; Defence and War Medals; Women’s Voluntary Service L. S. Medal, 1 clasp, Long Service, all unnamed, mounted as worn, very fine and better (15) £360-400

Fred Waterhouse was born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, lived in Stockport, Cheshire and enlisted at Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Serving in the 12th Battalion Manchester Regiment, he was killed in action at the battle of the Somme, 7 July 1916. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

Medals to Sergeant F. B. Waterhouse, R.A.F., with W.W.2 medal forwarding slip. A note with the medals indicates that he served with No. 72 Squadron at R.A.F. Odiham.