Efficiency Medal. EIIR 2nd issue with 'T. & A.V.R.' bar (23017947 L/Cpl. D. F. Orger R. Signals)

An award to a Dennis F. Orger, a member of 47 (Middlesex Yeomanry) Signal Squadron, Royal Signals TAVR

Sold together with companion:

- Miniature: Efficiency Medal. EIIR 2nd issue with 'T. & A.V.R.' bar Miniature medal
- Single space riband bar for wear on uniform. Complete with reverse hinged pin & clasp fittings

Medal presented to recipient at the units annual inspection carried out at Harrow TAVR centre, Elmgrove road, Harrow (Greater London) in November 1974

Medal Verification: Medal rolls for Efficiency Medals awarded during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II are not in the public domain as of 2026. However, the recipients entitlement to and award of the Efficiency Medal is confirmed per the news article published in the'Harrow Observer' newspaper issue of 27 November 1974, which included below quoted mention of Lance-Corporal Dennis F. Orger, Royal Sigbals, in an article headed 'Medals at annual inspection':

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Territorial Efficiency Medals - for 12 years successful and unbroken service with the TAVR - were presented to Staff Sergeant Harry Eden, Sergeant Roy Domville and Lance Corporal Dennis Orger.

Lance Corporal Orger, a telephone engineer, lives in Wealdstone. He has been involved with the Ary, both as a regula soldier and as a reservist, for 18 of the last 20 years 

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Dennis Fitchew Orger was a native of Hendon, Greater London, England, whose birth was registered during the fourth quarter of 1935. He was a very well known local resident of Wealdstone / Harrow, including involvement as a Councillor (Conservative) on the Harrow Borough Council in which he represented Wealdstone. He is recorded to have died at Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England on, 6 September 2019

Dennis was a local councillor in Wealdstone, and there are numerous mentions, including captioned photographs were published in the local press, and too many to here cite.

The full-size medal is court-mounted and as-worn by the recipient. The reverse of the mounting brooch retaining its hinged pin & clasp fittings

Medal Verification: About EF

Code: 26217