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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 135

Pair: Second Lieutenant C.F. Bishop, Royal Fusiliers British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. C.F. Bishop.), nearly extremely fine Pair: Lieutenant G.S. Dilley, Royal Fusiliers British War Medal (Q.M. & Lieut. G.S. Dilley.); Army Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ´Field Marshal´s bust´ type (5052 C. Sjt: G.S. Dilley. R.Fus.), nearly extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 100-120 Second Lieutenant Charles Frederick Bishop, born Kensington, London, May 1883; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 22.11.1916; served with the Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 6.7.1917; killed in action at Bucquoy, 4.4.1918, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. Lieutenant George Samuel Dilley, born Brentford, Middlesex, July 1874; enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, July 1894; promoted Corporal, April 1898; served with the 3rd Battalion, December 1898 to October 1905, in Malta, Gibraltar, Egypt, and Bermuda; Sergeant, March 1900; posted to 7th Battalion, October 1905; Colour Sergeant, December 1906; Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant, September 1914; served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22.9.1916; Commissioned Lieutenant and Quarter Master, 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 4.11.1917; retired, 9.1.1920.

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