A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars

Three: Lieutenant G. D. Partridge, Welsh Regiment, killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 3 November 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (2. Lieut., Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (Geoffrey Dorman Partridge) mounted in a contemporary glazed frame, extremely fine (4) £450-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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Geoffrey Dorman Partridge was born at Portsmouth on 24 December 1890, and educated at Bath College, at the United Services College, Windsor, and at the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Welsh Regiment in October 1911 and posted to the 2nd battalion, which later formed part of the 1st Division of the British Expeditionary Force. Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 November 1914, he was reported missing at the First Battle of Ypres, just two days later, on 3 November, and was subsequently presumed to have been killed in action on that date. Lieutenant Partridge is commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

His brother, Captain Charles Burnett Partridge, R.M.L.I. was lost in H.M.S. Good Hope, at the Battle of the Coronel on 1 November 1914, just two days prior to his own death.

See Lot 1125 for his brother’s medals.