Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:
Four: Gunner B. North, Royal Field Artillery
1914 Star, with clasp (64534 Gnr: B. North. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (64534 Gnr. B. North. R.A.), Defence Medal, first three mounted as worn, last in named card box of issue with medal slip, addressed to ‘Mr B. North, 32 St James Place, St James Street, SW1’, good very fine or better

One: Mrs. Ethel North
Defence Medal, in named card box of issue with medal slip, addressed to ‘Mrs E. North, 32 St James Place, St James Street, SW1’, nearly extremely fine (5) £80-120

Bertram North was born in Lambeth on 17 March 1891. He attested for the Royal Field Artillery on 24 February 1911 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 September 1914, with 38th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, as part of 6th Division. He transferred to 622 Company, Labour Corps on 10 January 1918 and was discharged due to wounds on 2 July 1918. He was awarded the Silver War Badge No. 417953.

Bertram North married Ethel Moore in June 1921 and at the start of the Second World War they were living at 54, Green Street, London, the home of a dental surgeon, where he was employed as a caretaker houseman, and his wife was employed as a cook housekeeper. He died in Westminster in December 1946.


Ethel North, née Moore was born on 15 July 1901, and died in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1975.