Ww1 Medal Trio & Plaque Belcher Ox & Bucks Light Infantry With Letters & Photos

Serving as a poignant reminder of WW1 is this plaque and trio to Joseph Albert Belcher of the 5th Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry, who died on the 25th September 1915 and is remembered with honour on the Menin Gate, when the 5th took part in an attack on Bellewaarde Farm. The medals come with an amount of ephemera including: scroll; notice of death and a number of letters all but one written by Joe, 9 written while at the front in France and 4 at camp before crossing the channel.

The other letter written by his brother Alfred while at the front. The group of 3 medals are correctly named and impressed to. 1914 - 15 Star 11171 Pte J. British War Medal 11171 Pte J. Victory Medal 11171 Pte J.

The Plaque is named to Joseph Albert Belcher. The medals and plaque remain in good condition with the medals court mounted, with replacement ribbons. The group comes with a good deal of ephemera. 4 portrait photo postcards; three showing Joe with his mother and sister Florence to whom many of the letters are addressed and to whom Joe is obviously close to and one showing Joe with other officers and soldiers in which he is holding a bugle. A frail copy of the Daily Sketch from Wedsnesday Dec 8, 1915 in which a small portrait photo of Belcher is accompanied by a request for news. Each is in good condition. With the postcard free of holes and foxing.

The original Casualties Form D. 1 addressed to Miss F. Belcher, Acorn Inn, Winson Greeen Road, B'ham informing her that Private J.

Belcher since no further news being received, that his death took place on 25th September 1915. Commemoration Scroll, and letters from the Record Office that accompanied the award of the medals. 14 letters, and 2'On Active Service' postcards, both of which are addressed to Miss F. Belcher of 56 Gillott Road, Egdebaston, Birmingham.

A photocopy of the 5th (Service) Battalion diary from 1st August to October 2nd 1915. The letters deal with life at camp before embarkation such as. There was plenty of food but rough and a long time before we could get it and the artillery checking our transport with it in and when we got it, it was half-cooked and the potatoes had ½ dirt on them this is what they call billeting scheme, different to what we had at Cranleigh. I will now close as I have got such a terrible lot of work to do.

While on the 28th Dec he writes. Dear I have forgot to tell you that on Boxing Day I thought I was going to have a nice days rest but they fetched us out on a route march and it rain every bit of the way we went, and not only that after we had to walk through water and mud over shoe tops then we had to halt because we could not find the other battalion.

So we had to march back the same way we came, all through the mud again, we was in a fine state when we got back. Once in France he comments. Our Colonel says that he was pleased with our work in the trenches we have had a most exciting time but we stood firm till it was all over. Going in and coming out of the trenches is more dangerous than being in the trenches. While commenting on the parcels he receives.

Will you let me know who sent the parcel with orange cake in it as I enjoyed them ever so much. I finished the fruit before I had my dinner and I had my dinner on the top of it but I enjoyed it all and the cake was splendid. On the 3rd July he writes Give me soldiering before civil life and never mind the work we have to do. I could never which to be in a better climate the sun is shining lovely, but we get a shower of rain now and again.

I should like you all to see this one particular spot where we are stopping now. Every bit of land is well cultivated: wheat, barley, oats especially the hops.

So my word that makes your mouth water dont it. That alright but they never see any in the beer round here.

We are now again in the rest camp and I may be able to write a few lines. Will you try and get is changed and let me know if you have done so by your next letter Darling. I have plenty of cigarettes & writing paper. I think I told you in my last letter what I should probably like cocoa health salts and some lump sugar so it will be nice when we go in the trenches again" And on the 11th of August he tells "We have had a long spell in trenches, this time 11 days, because we could not get anyone to relieve us, but we are out now.

Dated 31st August joe writes. He said that you asked to write also that he had just wrote to you asking you to send him some cigs for him, he had a little more to say about the their leave.

He say that is the biggest list? Of and says how anxious to him and that you always have got something to say in your letter especially if you dont hear from me he say he then gets an extra dose poor chap.

Joe Albert Belcher was to fall on the fields of Flanders within a month of writing this last letter and rests there still. He is one of the many we proudly wear our poppies for and will continue to do so. The item "WW1 MEDAL TRIO & PLAQUE BELCHER OX & BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY WITH LETTERS & PHOTOS" is in sale since Friday, May 27, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectables\Militaria\World War I (1914-1918)\Medals/ Ribbons". The seller is "screamingarchangel" and is located in Gloucester.

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Type: Medals & Ribbons
Era: 1914-1945
Conflict: World War I (1914-1918)
Service: Army
Country// Organization: Great Britain
Issued// Not-Issued: Issued