1914/15 Star named 10842 L CPL C BOUND W YORK R, British War & Victory Medals named 10842 SJT C BOUND W YORK R & India General Service Medal clasp Afghanistan NWF 1919 named LIEUT C G BOUND GLOUC R.
Clifford George Bound born in Staverley, Derbyshire, on 16th May 1891. He attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment in August 1914 as a 23 year old signalman with the local railways and was numbered 10842 and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War in Gallipoli from 11 July 1915 and Palestine till 2nd July 1916 when he was sent to the Western Front in France till 29th June 1917 as a Sgt he applied for a commission. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, in June 1917, and was posted for service with the 44th Divisional Signal Company in India (his pre-War trade being a railway signalman). He served with the 44th Divisional Signal Company during the Third Afghan War (one of only a handful of officers and men of the Regiment, all attached to different units, to receive the India General Service Medal), and in the 1939 Register is shown as living in Belford, Northumberland, and still working as a Railway Signalman. He died in 1974.
Sold with the recipient’s silver identity bracelet ‘2nd. Lt. C. Bound. C.E. Gloucesters’; and copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.
