Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Lieutenant W. H. Bosworth, Royal Indian Army Service Corps

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (7144615 S-Sgt. W. H. Bosworth, I.A.S.C.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (7144615 S-Sgt. W. H. Bosworth. R.I.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, India (S-Serjt. W. H. Bosworth, R.I.A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (7) £180-£220

William Hurley Bosworth was born in Birmingham on 10 March 1902, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Bosworth, Supply and Transport Corps, and attested for the Connaught Rangers at Jullundur on 10 March 1920. Transferring initially to the Manchester Regiment, and then to the Indian Army Service Corps with the rank of Sergeant on 6 December 1921, he was advanced Staff Sergeant on 6 December 1924, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Indian Army Order 255 of 1939. Appointed Sub-Conductor on 18 June 1940, he served with the Royal Indian Army Service Corps throughout the Second World War, and was commissioned Assistant Commissary, with the rank of Lieutenant, on 15 September 1943.

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For the recipient’s father’s medals, see Lot 192.