Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lance Corporal H. Bentley, Royal West Kent Regiment, later Bedfordshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen, Transvaal, unofficial rivets between second and third clasps (4860 Pte. H. Bentley, 2: Rl: W; Kent Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4860 Pte. H. Bentley. Rl: W. Kent Regt.); 1914-15 Star (820 L. Cpl. H. Bentley. R. W. Kent R.); British War and Victory Medals (820 Pte. H. Bentley. R.W. Kent R.) very fine (5) £180-220

Henry Bentley was born in Deptford, Kent, in 1875, and attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment at Maidstone, Kent, on 18 February 1897. He served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa, and with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 August 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Bedfordshire Regiment.