Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private M. F. Bowers, Cambridgeshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 30 March 1918 during the “German Spring Offensive”

1914-15 Star (2678 Pte., Camb. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2678 Pte., Camb. R.), with related Memorial Plaque (Martin Fulstone Bowers), extremely fine (4) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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Martin Fulstone Bowers, who was born at Landbeach, Cambridgeshire and who enlisted locally, was killed in action on 30 March 1918, while serving in the 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.

Sold with original British Red Cross and O. St. J. Enquiry Department letter, dated 17 October 1918, reporting that no further news had been received regarding the fate of Bowers; together with a similar communication from No. 1 Infantry Record Office, dated 14 August 1918; and an old carbon copy statement outlining the erratic movements of the 1/Cambridgeshire Regiment in retreat during the Spring Offensive (‘ ... It was a case of each man for himself. There were no stretcher-bearers available ...’).