Military Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GV 1st issue (4595 Sq. S. Mjr: J. Reece. 2/D. Gds.)

Medals verification: Lieutenant James Reece, Royal Army Service Corps late 2nd Dragoon Guards, is confirmed as having earned all the below following medals and awards per the referenced sources:

- 1914-15 Star: WO 329/2902 disembarked France 17 July 1915, 2nd Dragoon Guards
- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/2060 shown as W. O. Cl. II
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/2060 shown as W. O. Cl. II
- Military Long Service & Good Conduct Medal: Army Order 333 of October 1913
- Silver War Badge (Badge No.79005): WO 329/2959

James Reece, son of James Reece (an Agricultural Labourer / Sawyer) and Eliza Reece was a native of the parish of, Hoarwithy, Hentland, Ross-on- Wye, Herefordshire, England, where he was born on, 27 April 1875. James attested for the British Army at on, 30 May 1894, at which time he was described as 19 years & 1 month of age, who prior to joining the British Army had been employed as a 'Groom'. He joined the regimental depot of the King's Own Shropshire Light Infantry on 1 June 1894, later being posted to the 2nd Battalion K.S..L.I. on, 21 August 1894. He subsequently transferred to the 2nd Dragoon Guards, a mounted cavalry regiment of the British Army on, 4 August 1898. James married Laura Marianne Hippoley Stroud (whose father was a Colour Sergeant in The Buffs) at Canterbury, England, on, 6 April 1901. James served overseas in South Africa between, 22 September 1904 to 30 March 1908. During the Great War James served with the 2nd Dragoon Guards on the Western Front from 14 July 1915. Having been advanced to Squadron Sergeant Major, Reece was then commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 20 September 1918 (entitled to a Silver War Badge). Immediately after the War he resided at 11a Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, London, By the time of the compilation of the National Register for England and Wales, James described as a 'Retired Warrant Officer' living with his wife in Bromley, Kent, England.

The recipients service records are extant and accessible at The National Archives

Condition: GVF

Code: 24231