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Auction: 17001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 120

(x) China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (3702 Pte. F Bostock 1st Cheshire Regt.), light surface scratches, good very fine and scarce

Provenance: Ex G. D. White collection.

12 'Relief of Pekin' clasps to the Cheshire Regiment; sold with copied roll verification.

Frank Bostock was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, on 24 October 1872, and was employed as a railway worker prior to his enlistment in the Cheshire Regiment in April 1892. Posted to the 1st Battalion, he was subsequently present at the relief of Pekin (Medal & clasp). Discharged in June 1910, Bostock found employment as a fishmonger.

Following the outbreak of the Great War, Bostock enlisted in the Army Service Corps and went to France in October 1915, where he later transferred as a Sapper to the Railway Operating Department of the Royal Engineers. He died in Manchester on 24 March 1944 and is buried in the Philips Park Cemetery; see Genealogy of the Bostock and Bostwick Families: (http://www.bostock.net/tree/BostGen/names/knut/frank1872.html).

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Sold for
£2,000