Eight: Armourer Quarter Master Sergeant S. C. Bradley, Army Ordnance Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (837 Ar: Sjt. S. C. Bradley. A.O.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (837 Armr:-Serjt: S. C. Bradley. A.O.C.); 1914 Star (A-837 W.O. Cl2. S. G. Bradley A.O.C.) re-engraved naming; British War and Victory Medals (A-837 W.O. Cl.2 S. C. Bradley. A.O.C.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (T-837 Ar: Q.M. Sjt: S. C. Bradley. A.O.C.) rank partially officially corrected; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. 1st issue (837 Ar: Q.M. Sjt: S. C. Bradley. A.O.C.); Coronation 1911, minor edge nicks and contact marks to the Boer War awards, these very fine, the rest nearly extremely fine (8) £300-340

Stanley Charles Bradley was born in Aston, Birmingham, in 1876 and attested for the Army Ordnance Corps at Birmingham on 15 January 1897. A gun finisher by trade, he was posted to the the Armourer Section, and was promoted Armourer Sergeant on 15 April 1897. Posted to the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards on 27 November 1897, he served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from 18 March 1900 to 18 October 1902. After 7 years soldiering in India, from 20 September 1904 to 30 November 1911, he was promoted Armourer Quartermaster Sergeant on 14 February 1912, and served during the Great War on the Western Front continuously from 13 August 1914, attached to the 1st Battalion Irish Guards (entitled to a 1914 Star with clasp). He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 April 1917, and for his services during the Great War received the Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette 14 June 1918). He was discharged on 20 March 1919, after 22 years and 64 days’ service.