Long Service Medals 706 Pair: Farrier Sergeant E. Harris, Royal Field Artillery
Meritorious Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 1st issue (86596 Sjt. E. Harris. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C.,
E.VII.R. (86596 F. Sjt: E. Harris. R.F.A. good very fine and better (2)
£120-£160
Edward Harris was born in 1871 in Loughor, Glamorganshire and attested at Woolwich for Short Service with the Royal Artillery on 2 September 1891. He served in India from October 1892 to 29 January 1902 before returning to England. He was awarded the Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with a gratuity of £5 per Army Order 73 of 1910 and was discharged from the 136th Battery, R. F.A. on 22 September 1912 on the completion of his second period of engagement.
Harris re-enlisted in the Welsh Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on 8 June 1915 at Newport, aged 43 years, and was immediately promoted Farrier Sergeant. He served in France with the British Expeditionary Force from 23 November 1915 until 1917 and was disembodied on demobilisation on 5 March 1919. His M.S.M. was awarded under per Army Order 73 of 1949.
707 Pair: Warrant Officer First Class H. Bevan, Military Provost Staff Corps, later Major, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Meritorious Service Medal,
G.VI.R, 2nd issue (7717168 W.O. Cl.1 H. Bevan. M.P.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (7717168 W.O. Cl.II. H. Bevan. M.P.S.C.) nearly extremely fine, the first scarce to unit (2)
£240-£280
Harry Bevan attested for the Military Provost Staff Corps, his service number denoting an original early enlistment. He was appointed Garrison Sergeant Major on 21 May 1936, and was commissioned Lieutenant Quartermaster, General List, on 23 December 1939. He transferred as a Lieutenant to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 3 July 1942 , and was promoted Major on 1 November 1947. He relinquished his commission on 1 October 1954.
708 Meritorious Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 3rd issue (5820317 W.O. Cl. 2 W. Maple, Suffolk R.) nearly extremely fine £100-£140
William Maple was born in Lewes, Sussex, on 26 June 1891 and served in the Great War as a Sergeant, serving with the South Staffordshire Regiment, Herefordshire Regiment and Suffolk Regiment, and was awarded the British War and Victory Medals. After the Great War he served with the 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment on home service, in Ireland, Gibraltar and then India. Promoted to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant in 1925, he received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1932, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by Army Order 98 of 1953. He died in Cambridge on 10 November 1958.
709 Meritorious Service Medal,
G.VI.R., 3rd issue (7868711. W.O. Cl. 2. R. Ellis. Tank Corps.) extremely fine £100-£140
Ronald Ellis was born in Colchester, Essex in 1882. He attested for the Army Service Corps in Colchester on 17 October 1900 and re- attested to complete 21 years colour service on 30 November 1911. He served during the Great War from 20 August 1914 with the A. S.C. and received the 1914 Star. He transferred to the Tank Corps around the time of its formation and advanced to the rank of Warrant Officer Class II. He received the British War and Victory Medals named to this regiment and he was also awarded the Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. He was discharged on 16 October 1921 having served his second period of engagement.
710 Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (6191656 W.O. Cl. 2. T. W. F. Graham, RWK.) extremely fine £200-£240
Thomas William Frederick Graham was born in Wandsworth, London, on 9 August 1896, and served during the Great War with the 15th London Regiment from 13 March 1915 until being demobilised on 10 March 1919. He subsequently attested for the Middlesex Regiment on 14 July 1919, and served with them in Gibraltar and Egypt, before transferring to the Royal West Kent Regiment on 29 July 1922. He served with them in India and Palestine, was advanced Warrant Officer Class II on 15 February 1937, and was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1937. He saw further service during the Second World War in Persia and Iraq, and transferred to Class ‘Z’ Royal Army Reserve on 19 June 1945. He was finally discharged on 10 February 1954. He died as an In Pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 17 October 1964.
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Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal,
E.VII.R. (6 Kot Dufdr. Nawal Khan 30th. Mule Corps) official corrections to number and rank; Indian Army L.S. & G.C. (2),
E.VII.R. (1359 Naick Likal Singh 14th. P. of W.O.F. Sikhs.) minor official correction to unit; another, G.V.R., 2nd issue (18 Hav-Maj. Gohur Dasgroo. 2-1 Gurkhas) number officially corrected on last, nearly very fine or better (3)
£60-£80
712
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2835 Sergt. P. Nagle 1st. Bn. 1st. Foot) edge bruising and minor contact marks, very fine
£70-£90
713
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1256. Cr. –Sjt. J. Richardson. 45th Regt.) minor edge nicks, good very fine
£70-£90
James Richardson was born in 1818 in Belfast, Ireland and attested for service in the 45th Regiment of Infantry at Liverpool on 28 October 1837. He served abroad at the Cape of Good Hope for 16 years and 1 month, achieving the rank of School Master Sergeant in May 1843 and Colour & School Master Sergeant in May 1853. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct medal with gratuity and was discharged at Pietermaritzburg on 28 February 1860 after 22 years and 113 days’ service.
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