Efficiency Medal. GV issue with 'Territorial' bar (6195821 Pte. F.T. Cane. 8-Midd'x. R.)

An award issued sometime between 1930-1936

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-constututed 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment - the re-constituted battalion 1/Middlesex subsequently served in North West Europe 1939-45

Condition: GVF

Code: 25677