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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 815

(x) Pair: Rifleman W. C. Bone, Royal Fusiliers, late London Regiment and King's Royal Rifle Corps

British War and Victory Medals (R-24803 Pte. W. Bone, K.R.R.C.), good very fine (2)

William Croft Bone was born at Kilburn, Westminster, in 1882. According to the 1891 Census for England, it seems that William C. Bone was adopted - Croft was his birth surname. He married Rose Maud Ellingham at Westminster in 1907, she once having lived at 139 Vauxhall Bridge Road and he at 109 Mount Street West, Westminster. William enlisted on 2 December 1915 and served with a number of regiments, concluding with the 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He died in the Coventry District, Warwickshire, in 1964; his MIC confirms the above entitlement.

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