Three: Captain G. Bradwell, Royal Garrison Artillery, wounded in action, June 1917

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) extremely fine (5) £140-180

George Bradwell was commissioned a Lieutenant on 11 December 1914. Serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 September 1915. Bradwell was wounded in action in June 1917, suffering gunshot wounds to his back and left leg. He was admitted to 3 General Hospital. He was promoted to Captain on 18 September 1917 and was employed as such at the Ministry of Munitions, being discharged in 1919.

With commission document dated 11 December 1914 appointing him a Lieutenant in the Land Forces; together with two identity disks and a copied photograph of the recipient - these together with the medals mounted in a wooden glass-fronted frame.

Together with recipient’s Field Almanac booklet; Table of Angles booklet and Howitzer Carriage booklet; two other charts; named lids of medal card boxes of issue; official envelope addressed to Bradwell at ‘37 Park Avenue, Southport’; telegram addressed to Mrs Bradwell informing her that Captain Bradwell had been wounded; War Office document concerning his demobilisation; and a quantity of papers relating to his injury and war pension; with copied m.i.c.