Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Victory Medal awarded to Private F. C. S. Bradley, 7th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, on which date his battalion suffered over 500 casualties

Victory Medal 1914-19 (G-1237 Pte. F. C. S. Bradley. The Queen’s R.) in named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Frederick Charles Sidney Bradley) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, and outer OHMS transmission addressed to ‘Mr. C. W. Bradley, 86 Gloucester Road, Croydon, Surrey’; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Frederick Charles Sidney Bradley, Royal W. Surrey Regt.’, extremely fine (3) £240-£280

Frederick Charles Sidney Bradley was born in Croydon, Surrey, and attested there for the Royal West Surrey Regiment. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 July 1915, and was killed in action on the first day of the battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack at Montauban, and after twelve hours’ fighting along a 200 yard front had suffered 532 casualties. He is buried in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France.

Sold together with named Record Office enclosures for the British War and Victory Medals; a postcard photograph of the recipient; and other ephemera.