A 'Folkestone' - Man of Kent - Great War Aden & East Africa medal group of 4: Private Frank Robert Moyle, 2nd Home Counties Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force) attached 1/4th Battalion The Buffs, East Kent Regiment

- 1914-15 Star (2569 Pte F. R. Moyle. R.A.M.C.)
- British War Medal. Silver issue (495076 Pte F. R. Moyle. R.A.M.C.)
- Interallied Victory Medal  (495076 Pte F. R. Moyle. R.A.M.C.)
- Territorial Force Efficiency Medal. GV (495076 Pte F. R. Moyle. R.A.M.C.)

Aden Service 1915: Uncommonly for a 'Theatre of War' first entered on active-service, Private Frank Robert Moyle is confirmed qualifying for his 1914-15 Star, by serving under fire in Aden Colony 1915. At the time of qualifying for his Star, entitlement he was an embedded / attached 'Medic' serving with 1/4th Battalion The Buffs, East Kent Regiment (he had earlier served with them in India on garrison duty)

East Africa Service 1916-18: Following his service in Aden Colony, he was posted to East Africa where he served extensively 1916-18

Service Papers: A large and very interesting set of service papers are extant for Frank Robert Moyle, and are held & accessible at The National Archives in file series 'War Office: Soldiers' Documents, First World War Wo363'

Medals Verification: Private Frank Robert Moyle, Royal Army Medical Corps. is confirmed as entitled to all 4 x medals per the respective medal rolls and referenced  Army Order/MIC for the TFEM below:

- 1914-15 Star: WO 329/2917. Disembarked theatre of war 'Aden' Colony 04/08/15
- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/2093. Shown under later regimental number 495076
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/2093. Shown under later regimental number 495076
- Territorial Force Efficiency Medal. GV: WO 372/24/139713 MIC For TFEM awarded August 1921

Frank Robert Moyle, second son of Walter Moyle (in 1911 described as a 'Gas Fitter'), and Alice Moyle (nee Smith) was a native of Folkestone, Kent, England, where he was born on, 28 July 1895. At the time of the compilation of the National Census for England & Wales in 1911, Frank, who was 16 years of age, is recorded therein employed as a 'Grocers Porter'. At that time, Frank resided with his parents and elder brother Stanley Walter Moyle (18 years of age, who was employed as a 'Plumber') at their family residence located at, 36 Queen Street, Folkestone, Kent, England

Prior to the Great War, Frank had enlisted in the Territorial Force of the British Army. His extant service papers show that he attested for the Territorial Force on 29 January 1913. In 1914 Frank was serving with the 2nd Home Counties Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force) of the British Army, when on 28 October 1914, at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, he signed his oath to serve overseas from the United Kingdom 'attached' with the 1/4th Battalion The Buffs, East Kent Regiment. 

During the Great War, Frank's record of service with the Territorial Force of the British Army is summarised below:

- Home: 29/01/1913 - 28/10/1914
- Indian Expeditionary Force: 29/10/1914 - 29/11/1914
- India: 30/11/1914 - 25/07/1915
- British East Africa : 26/07/1915 - 03/08/1915 
- British East Africa (inc Aden thru 1915 - a detailed letter in his papers refer): 04/08/1915 - 15/02/1919
- To UK: 16/02/1919 - 20/03/1919
- Home: 21/03/1919 - 24/08/1919
- Disembodied Service: 25/08/1919 - 31/03/1920

Fortunate to have survived the enemy, climate and unhealthy conditions of active service in Aden, South Arabia and East Africa during the Great War, Frank returned to the United Kingdom in 1919. After being disembodied from the British Army, Frank returned to his native roots in Kent, England

On Boxing Day, 2612/1923, Frank married Helen Garrett at St.Gregory the Great, in the parish of St. Gregory the Great, Canterbury, Kent. At the time of the compilation of the National Register for England & Wales in 1939, Frank is recorded employed as a 'Gas Works Labourer' and residing, together with his wife Helen, and their 2 x daughters, vis Margaret V. A. Moyle (b. 06/11/1924), and Joan D. R. Moyle (b. 12/03/1934), at their family residence located at, 126 Black Bull Road, Folkestone, Kent. Frank Robert Moyle of 63 Reculver Road, Beltinge, Kent, was 74 years of age, when he is recorded to have died at the Herne Bay Hospital, Herne Bay, Kent on 11 September 1969

The medals mounted in the swing-style and as-worn by the recipient. The silk ribands, with some fraying to the Interallied Victory medal riband, are suspended from a white metal mounting bar that retains its long hinged pin & clasp fittings

A most interesting Great War service record to a 'Man of Kent', who served far from home embedded as a 'Medic' with 1/4th Buffs on active service in South Arabia / Aden Colony, followed by years of tropical service in East Africa

Condition: VF

Code: 26030