A Cheshunt, Hertordshire, 'Local History' Great War & Honoured by the Royal Horicultural Society medal group of 3: Private Charles Christopher Adams, 1/1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry

- British War Medal. Silver (105409 Pte. C. C. Adams. Herts. Yeo.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (105409 Pte. C. C. Adams. Herts. Yeo.)
- Royal Horticultural Society Medal & '50 Years' bar
(C.C. Adams.)

Sold together with:

- R.H.S. Long Service Medal case of issue. A plush hinged case with makers logo of medalists 'John Pinches'

- R.H.S. lapel badge

Important: The Great War campaign medals verified as the recipients full medal entitlement for the Great War per the respective campaign medal roll of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry (ref WO 329/22) that was compiled and signed at, Canterbury, England, on, 18 October 1920

Note: The Royal Horticultural Society Long Service Medal - with issue lapel badge - was instituted in 1958. It is bestowed upon any man or woman of British Nationality, resident in the United Kingdom, who has completed 40 years’ continuous satisfactory employment as a gardener or in some other horticultural capacity with one employer or family, or in one place, with bars being awarded for fifty or sixty years service

During the Great War, Charles Adams, served overseas fighting the Ottoman Turkish Forces. In 1916 the 1/1 Hertfordshire Yeomanry was split up into its constituent Squadrons. 'A Squadron' would go on to serve in Palestine as part of the British 54th Division's mounted troops. 'B Squadron' would return to the UK with the 11th Division before later seeing service again in Egypt and later with their 'A Squadron' comrades in Palestine. 'D Squadron' were employed for much of the war in the 'Mesopotamia' theatre of operations and spent time with the North Persia Force (in present day Iraq) where it served as the divisional cavalry of he 13th (Western)

Charles Christopher Adams, son of Herbert Adams (Carman, at Horticultural Nursery) and Emma Adams was a native of, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, where he was born on, 6 May 1894. At the time of the 1911 National Census for England & Wales, Charles is recorded as living at home, with his parents and 4 x siblings, comprising 2 x brothers (Albert & George) and 2 x sisters (Alice & Rose) and residing at, Flamstead End, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, where he is shown as employed as a 'Nursery Hand'. After service overseas in the Great War with 1/1 Hertfordshire Yeomanry, he returned to his gardening career, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, where he worked as a 'Nurseryman - Roses’. in 1927, Charles married Winifred Violet Mallaburn, and by the time of the compilation of the 1939 National Register for England & Wales, Charles and his wife are recorded as living at, 118 Cromwell Avenue, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Charles died at, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, sometime during the first quarter of 1979

The Great War campaign medals mounted in the court-style for display

Sold together with some hard copy research

Condition: About EF

Code: 20957