Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private M. F. Bowers, Cambridgeshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (2678 Pte., Camb. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2678 Pte., Camb. R.); Memorial Plaque (Martin Fulstone Bowers), last in card envelope, extremely fine (4) £200-240

Martin Fulstone Bowers was born in Landbeach, Cambridgeshire and enlisted at Cambridge. Serving with the 1st battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 14 February 1915. Serving with the same battalion he was first posted as missing in action, then later, killed in action on 30 March 1918 during the great German Spring Offensive of 1918. He was the husband of Mrs I. Bowers of Rosemary House, Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial. Sold with original Army Form B.104-82A addressed to Mrs Bowers, dated 14 August 1919, in which it was deemed that Private Bowers must be presumed dead; a letter to Mrs Bowers from the British Red Cross and Order of St. John, dated 17 October 1919, in which they regreted at being unable to detirmin the fate of her husband; an account from the war diaries of the regiment of the period 21-27 March 1918 and also copied research.