Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. Bates, Royal Fusiliers

British War and Victory Medals (GS-13042 Pte., R. Fus.) extremely fine (2) £40-60

Herman Bates was born and was living in Smethwick, Staffordshire and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving in the 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, he died in East Africa on 18 September 1916. He was buried in the Taveta Military Cemetery, Kenya.