Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private B. Booker, West Yorkshire Regiment, taken Prisoner of War on the Western Front, 22 September 1914

1914 Star (5996 Pte. B. Booker. 1/W. York: R.); British War and Victory Medals (5996. Pte. B. Booker. W. York. R.) very fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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Bertie Booker was born in Yorkshire in 1881 and attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment in November 1900. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he proceeded to South Africa and served during the Boer War (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 only). Transferring to the Reserve, he was recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of the Great War, and served on the Western Front from 8 September 1914. Taken Prisoner of War on 22 September 1914, after only a fortnight at the front, he was held at Doberitz Prisoner of War Camp in Germany until the cessation of hostilities. Repatriated to England on 14 December 1918, he was discharged on 24 March 1919, and died in Yorkshire in 1951.

Sold together with a photographic image of the recipient.