Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lance-Corporal W. G. Bradley, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, who was taken Prisoner of War on the Fall of Kut al Amara in April 1916, and subsequently died of malaria in Turkish captivity

1914-15 Star (8405 L. Cpl. W. G. Bradley. Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8405 Pte. W. G. Bradley. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) all in named card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (William George Bradley) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope of issue and outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mr. C. W. Bradley, 86 Gloucester Road, Croydon, Surrey’; Memorial Scroll (L/Cpl. William George Bradley Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.) nearly extremely fine (5) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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William George Bradley was born in Croydon, Surrey, on 27 August 1887, and attested for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War in Mesopotamia, and was taken prisoner of War when General Townshend’s Garrison capitulated at Kut al Amara, in April 1916. He is officially recorded (death accepted) as having died of Malaria, whilst a prisoner of War of the Turks, on 7 October 1916, and is buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq.

Sold together with original notification that 8405 L.Cpl. Bradley, W. G., had been taken prisoner at the fall of Kut al Amara, when the Battalion capitulated on 24 April 1916; original letter from the War Prisoners Fund Ox. & Bucks. L.I., counterstamped by the Central Red Cross P/W Committee dated December 1917, including unofficial reports regarding the fate of Pte. Bradley, from other prisoners taken with General Townshend’s Garrison at Kut al Amara, in April 1916, principally confirming his death in in Turkish captivity in Sept. or Oct. 1916; original casualty enclosure slips for the 1914-15 Star & British War and Victory medals; official Infantry Records Office notification of his death originally reported as 15 September 1916 and later corrected to 7 October 1916, from malaria while prisoner of war; and County Borough of Croydon Roll of Honour detail form, for completion regarding the circumstances of his death.