Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major A. B. Lemon, Bedfordshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut., Bedford Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major), mounted as worn, very fine and better (4) £380-420

Arthur Bushe Lemon was born in 19 December 1874 and was appointed Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Bedfordshire Militia in February 1894 and from the Militia to be a Second Lieutenant in the Bedfordshire Regiment in March 1897. Promoted Lieutenant in October 1898, he served with them in South Africa and was present at the actions at Colesberg but was invalided to England on 28 September 1900. Promoted Captain in 1906, he attained the rank of Major on 31 October 1914. With the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment he entered the France / Flanders theatre of war on 6 October 1914. On 31 October 1914 he was twice wounded and then made prisoner-of-war. Major Lemon is known to have been held at Crefeld Camp on the Rhineland in 1917 and was interned in Holland on 24 February 1918 and repatriated on 18 November 1918. He was placed on Retired Pay from the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment on 2 Januery 1923. Sold with a quntity of copied research and copied photographs.