Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. H. Bransfield, Monmouthshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (3324 Pte., Monmouth. R.); British War and Victory Medals (3324 Pte., Monmouth. R.), in their card boxes of issue, together with the recipient’s identity discs (2) and an old leather wallet, good very fine (6) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Monmouthshire Regiment formed by Lt. Col. P. A. Blagojevic, O. St. J., T.D..

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John H. Bransfield first entered the French theatre of was as a Private in the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in early June 1915.

Also sold with a quantity of original documentation, including Shrewsbury Record Office forwarding cards for the recipient’s 1914-15 Star, dated 20 October 1921, and British War & Victory Medals, dated 4 March 1924; Christmas 1915 regimental card, with printed title from ‘3324 Rfn. H. Bransfield, ‘B’ Company, 1/1st Monmouthshire Rifles, B.E.F.’, and handwritten message ‘From Harry to Rose and Olive’, and another, for Christmas 1918, a 46th North Midland Division edition, with handwritten message ‘From Harry to Rose’ and with a picture of the St. Quentin Canal; and several wartime photographs.