Efficiency Medal. GVI issue, 1st type obverse legend with 'Territorial' bar (6207127. Pte. R.J. Tapsfield. MX.)

An award issued sometime between 1936-1947

The recipients' unique Army Number is from the block 6188001-6278000 allocated to the Middlesex Regiment in 1920, from which army numbers were awarded sequentially to all enlistees - regulars and reserves - who were posted to the Middlesex Regiment in the period circa 1920-1941

Prior to the Second World War, the Middlesex Regiment, had three Territorial Army battalions, viz 7th, 8th & 9th. In 1938, the 9th were converted to a 'Searchlight' unit and formally became a unit of the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1940. In 1938, the 7th & 8th battalions, raised second battalions. After the outbreak of the Second World War, 1/8th Middlesex served with the B..E.F. in France  1939-1940, while in the same period the 2/8th remained in the United Kingdom on Home Defence Duties. Following the capture of the regular 1st Battalion Middlesex in Hong Kong Colony on 25 December 1941, in 1942 the 1/8th & 2/8th Battalion's of the Middlesex Regiment were amalgamated to form a re-constituted 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment - the re-constituted battalion 1/Middlesex subsequently served in North West Europe 1939-45

The medal is attributed as being awarded to Reginald Joseph Springett Tapsfield, son of Springett Wilberforce Tapsfield and Louisa Everall Tapsfield (nee Jupp), who was a native of Kensington, London, England where his birth was registered during the last quarter of 1919. Reginald married Rose Anne McCabe, at Brentford, Middlesex, England, sometime during the 1st quarter of 1945. Reginald J.S. Tapsfield, of, 13, Brouncker Road, Acton, London, W3, died in London on 2 November 1985

Condition: GVF

Code: 25676