Efficiency Medal. GVI 2nd issue with 'Territorial' bar (6194114. W.O.Cl.2. E. H. Ormes. R.A.)

Letter 'E' forename initial has been corrected / over-stamped - and fairly typical with these particular medal issues

The recipient had first enlisted into the South Staffordshire Regiment of the British Army, and later transferred to the Royal Regiment of Artillery

The recipient's unique Army Number is from the block 6188001-6278000 that was allocated to the Middlesex Regiment in 1920, and awarded sequentially to recruits to that regiment through to circa 1941

Medals verification: In addition to his Efficiency Medal - that issued sometime after August 1947 - the recipient's extant British Army Medal Card shows that he was entitled and issued with the below following Second World War campaIgn medals:

- The 1939-1945 Star. No clasp
- The Africa Star. With a clasp
- Defence Medal
- War Medal

Warrant Officer Class II Ernest Hubert Ormes took his discharge from the British Army on 16 November 1945, at which time his discharge unit of the British Army was a Light Anti-Aircraft unit of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. He was sent his WW2 campaign medals on, 12 August 1948, to the below residential address:

43 Astley Road
Clacton-on-Sea
Essex

Ernest Hubert Ormes, son of Charles Osmond Edward Ormes (a House Painter) and Alice Ormes (nee Barnett), was a native of Putney, London, England, where he was born on, 8 April 1905. At the time of the compilation of the 1911 National Census for England and Wales, Ernest is shown living with his parents 6 x siblings (3 x brothers and 2 x sisters), together with his paternal grandmother at the family residence lin London, located at, 129 Trentham Street, Southfields, Wandsworth S. Ernest is recorded to have died at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England, on, 25 December 1990

Condition: GVF

Code: 24470