A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties

Pair: Private A. N. Bloomfield, Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918

British War and Victory Medals (S-12689 Pte. A. N. Bloomfield. Rif. Brig.) both in named card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque )Allan Nelson Bloomfield) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Rifleman Allan Nelson Bloomfield, Rifle Brigade’, in OHMS transmission tube, addressed to ‘Mr. C. Bloomfield, 72 Brook Street, Erith, Kent’, extremely fine (4) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Allan Nelson Bloomfield was born in Eltham, Kent, and attested for the Rifle Brigade at Chelsea. He served initially with the 9th, and subsequently with the 16th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on the first day of the German Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.

Sold together with extensive ephemera, including a number of postcards and embroidered cards written by the recipient home to his sister Elsie; sweetheart brooch and locket photographs; a portrait photograph of the recipient, in a glazed frame, together with a large copy of this, also in a glazed frame, and various other photographs; the recipient’s diary for 1916, with sporadic entries from the Front in the Arras region; C.W.G.C. Memorial Scroll; and copied research.