Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R. 1st issue (Benjamin Frederick Victor Freeman) edge prepared prior to naming, nearly extremely fine

Four: Sapper F. V. Freeman, Royal Engineers
1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn with the Defence and War Medals on the wrong ribands, together with the recipient’s riband bar, nearly extremely fine (5) £100-140

Benjamin Frederick Victor Freeman was born at Gillingham, Kent, on 2 December 1887, and served as a Postman from September 1909. He attested for the 8th Battalion London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) on 18 April 1915 and served with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 18 December 1916 until 13 September 1917. He was discharged on 19 February 1918, after 2 years and 308 days’ service, and returned to his civilian career as a postman. He died in Chatham, Kent, on 5 February 1981.

Sold together with the recipient’s Character Certificate and Certificate of Discharge.

Frederick Victor Freeman, the son of Benjamin Frederick Victor Freeman, was born in Gillingham, Kent, on 31 May 1913, and attested for the Royal Engineers (Territorial Army) at Chatham, Kent, on 6 October 1930, transferring to the Regular Army on 21 April 1933. He served during the Second World War with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 3 April to 5 June 1940, and then in Sicily and North Africa from 15 August 1943 to 10 November 1945. Transferring to the Reserve on 5 February 1946, he was discharged on 18 February 1952. In civilian life he followed his father as a Postman, in the Rochester and Chatham District, and retired on 26 June 1969.

Sold together with a large quantity of original documents, including the recipient’s Regular Army Certificate of Service; Soldier’s Release Book; National Identity Card; Passport; and various letters, cards, and photographs.