Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant A. H. S. Joyce, Norfolk Regiment, late Bedfordshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (22101 Cpl. A. H. S. Joyce, 7/Bedf. R.); 1914-15 Star (22101 A. Cpl., Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (Alexander Hugh Sinclair Joyce) good very fine (5) £800-1000

M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

Alexander Hugh Sinclair Joyce was born at Putney, London, on 28 September 1890. He joined the Grenadier Guards on 4 November 1914, transferred to the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment on 10 June 1915, and went to France at the end of the following month.

He was awarded the Military Medal for the successful raid carried out by men of the 7th Bedfordshire Regimenton the enemy’s trenches near Carnoy, in the early hours of 27 April 1916. Unfortunately Joyce received gun shot wounds to both feet, and it was not until January 1917 that he was passed fit. Shortly afterwards he applied for a commission which was granted in December 1917. He was posted to the Norfolk Regiment and attached to the 12th Battalion, and died on 20 August 1918, of wounds received in action in France. He is buried in Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery.

Sold with full research. See also the D.C.M. group to Colour-Sergeant W. F. Mills, awarded for the same raid (Lot 1325).