Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private F. Bates, 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 24 October 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (7183 Pte. F. Bates. 1/R. Sc: Fus.) British War and Victory Medals (7183 Pte. F. R. Bates. R.S. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Bates); Memorial Scroll (Pte. Frederick Bates, Royal Scots Fusiliers), last with Buckingham Palace enclosure in postage tube addressed to ‘Mrs E. J. George, 18 Blackman St. Brighton’, generally good very fine (lot) £300-400

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006.

Frederick Reeves Bates was born in Stepney, London, and attested for the Royal Scots Fusiliers at Brighton, Sussex. He served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front from 8 September 1914, and died of wounds on 24 October 1914. He is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

The recipient’s medals were sent to his widow, who had subsequently remarried.

Sold with the recipient’s Princess Mary Christmas Tin (with record Office enclosure which states ‘H.R.H. Princess Mary’s Christmas Gift, for the late 7183 Pte. R. F. Bates, R.S.F.’, and enclosure slips for the 1914 Star and for the clasp, the latter documentation also addressed to Mrs George.