Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private H. Ding, Suffolk Regiment, who was discharged on account of wounds in 1917
1914 Star, with clasp (3-8358 Pte. H. Ding. 2/Suff: R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-8358 Pte. H. Ding. Suff. R.) with OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. H. Ding, Covenly, Isle of Ely, Cambridge’, extremely fine

Pair: Private T. Ding, Suffolk Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 26 September 1917
British War and Victory Medals (26488 Pte. T. Ding. Suff. R.) extremely fine (5) £160-£200

Harold Ding was born in Coveney, Ely, Cambridgeshire, on 18 August 1894 and attested for the Suffolk Regiment on 18 October 1911. he served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 September 1914 to 18 March 1916. Wounded in action by gun shot to his hand, he was discharged as a result of his wounds on 18 July 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge no. 213897.

Sold with the recipient’s large Honourable Discharge Certificate, this mounted on board and in relic condition; Character and Discharge Certificate; and an empty Princess Mary Christmas 1914 tin.

Tom Ding, the brother of the above, was born in Coveney, Ely, Cambridgeshire, in 1888 and attested for the Suffolk Regiment. He served with both the 8th and 4th Battalions during the Great War on the Western Front from 1916, and was killed in action on 26 September 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.