Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (9524 L. Cpl B. H. A. Apsey. 2/Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.) good very fine £140-180

M.I.D. London Gazette 20 October 1914.

Bertram Howard Anthony Apsey was born in Knowle, Bristol, in 1895, and attested there for the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914 as Lance Corporal, and was Mentioned in Sir John French’s first Despatch of the War, 20 October 1914, one of 2 Officers and 4 Men of the Battalion Mentioned in this Gazette. Wounded on 1 December 1914, he was promoted Sergeant and was killed in action on 15 October 1915 at Hohenhollern Redoubt, aged 20. He is buried in Quarry Cemetery, Vermelles, and is commemorated on the Staple Hill War Memorial, Bristol. A short biography for Bertram Apsey can be found in Bristol and The War, 1 November 1915.