A Collection of Great War Medals

Victory Medal 1914-19 (2 Lieut. F. B. Burr) good very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Great War Medal Collection of Robin H.J. Darvell.

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Frederick Bonham Burr was born in Hastings on 2 August 1887 and was educated at Sandroyd, Cobham, at Denstone College and at Keble College, Oxford where he took a M.A. degree. Prior to the war, he was studying for the Church at Cuddesdon but had previously joined the Reserve of Officers from the O.T.C. in 1913. Burr was a member of the Authors’ Club and had written several poems published under the title, The Strummings of a Lyre. He played cricket for his county and for the ‘Worcester Gentlemen’. He also played football for Keble and won his oar in the Torpids. Upon the outbreak of war, he volunteered for active service and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment on 23 September 1914. With the battalion he was killed in action at Kemmel on 12 March 1915, aged 28 years. He was buried in the Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery. Lieutenant Burr was the eldest son of Rev. and Mrs G. F. Burr, of Highfields Park, Hales Owen, Worcester. With copied m.i.c. and other research.