Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant T. H. Bacon, Royal Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. T. H. Bacon) good very fine (2) £40-50

Thomas Henry Bacon was born in Nunhead, Surrey, on 5 December 1893, and was educated at the City of London School, and Service College, Aldwych. Having worked as a Clerk for the Board of Trade for three years, he took over his father’s business as a steam laundry proprietor, living at 212 Peckham Rye, London. Despite missing the index finger of his left hand, he enlisted at Camberwell from the Army Reserve and was posted to 36th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in June 1916, transferring via The Queen’s to 184th Company, Labour Corps on 14 July 1916. He served with the British Expeditionary Force until 15 June 1917 when he returned home to join No. 8 Officer Cadet Battalion. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 27 November 1917, and served with the 17th (Empire) Battalion until disembodied on 1 February 1919. He subsequently became a Freeman of the City of London.