A Dickleborough (Norfolk) / Nottingham (Notts) interest Second World War & Long Service medal group of 3: Staff Quartermaster Sergeant George Guy Aldous, Royal Army Pay Corps

- Defence Medal
- War Medal
- Military LS&GC Medal. EIIR 1st issue 'Regular Army' (7668563 W.O. Cl.2. G. G. Aldous. R.A.P.C.)

The recipients unique Army Number was from the block 7657001-7681000 awarded to the Royal Army Service Corps in 1920, and issued sequentially thereafter to new enlistees to the Corps between 1920-1941

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Code: 25860

Wilmslow (Cheshire) / Brighouse (West Yorkshire) local interest British Army Officer Second World War, Korean War & Long Service medal group of 4: Major Geoffrey Gowland Chambers, Royal Army Pay Corps, late Royal Regiment of Artillery

- Defence Medal
- War Medal
- United Nations: Service Medal with 'Korea' bar
- Efficiency Medal. GVI 1st issue 'Territorial' bar  (Lt. G. G. Chambers. R.A.P.C.)

Medals Verification: None of the medal rolls for any of the recipients medals are accessible in the public domain (as of writing). We can however confirm the recipients entitlement to all the medals p...  read more

Code: 25858

A Post-Second World War campaign and long service medal pair: Staff Sergeant Major Harry Kenneth Barber, Royal Army Pay Corps late 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards

- GSM 1918-62. GVI 1st issue 'Palestine 1945-48' & 'Cyprus' (2671136 Gdsm. H. Barber. Coldm. Gds.)
- Military LS&GC. EIIR 2nd issue with 'Regular Army' bar (2671136 W.O. Cl. 2. H. K. Barker. RAPC.) 

The upper clasp on the GSM attached by the customary silver rod - as issued. Note surname on LS&GC is shown wrongly as 'Barker' (sic) exactly as issued, and never subsequently ...  read more

Code: 25857

A Jock's Edinburgh / Richmond (London) local interest post-war medal group of 3 to a veteran of the Second World War: Sergeant John Gilbert Young, Royal Army Pay Corps, late 1st Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 

- Korea Medal 1950-53. 1st issue (2758006 Sjt. J. S. Young. B.W.)
- United Nations: Service Medal with 'Korea' bar 
- General Service Medal 1962-2007. With clasp 'Borneo' (27658006 Sgt. J. G.Young. RAPC.)

Note the Korea Medal with middle forename initial 'S' (sic) and the GSM medal with an extra digit (sic). The medals otherwise exactly as issued and never returned ...  read more

Code: 25854

A British Officers 'End of Empire Small Wars' campaign medal pair: Captain H. S. Macrae, Royal Army Pay Corps

- Africa General Service Medal 1902-56. EIIR issue & clasp 'Kenya' (Capt. H. S. Macrae. R.A.P.C.) 
- General Service Medal 1918-62. EIIR issue & clasp 'Malaya' (Capt. H. S. Macrae. R.A.P.C.)

Recipient was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Army Pay Corps on the National Service List on 17 September 1955, and was promoted Lieutenant and Paymaster on 3 June 1957, wi...  read more

Code: 25852

A South Arabia & Sultanate of Oman campaign and long service medal group of 3: Sergeant K. H. Brown, Royal Signals later Sultan's Armed Forces (Oman)

- General Service Medal 1962-2007. Clasp 'South Arabia' (23927973 Sig K H Brown R Signals R)
- Military LS&GC Medal. EIIR with 'Regular Army' bar (23927973 Sig K H Brown R Signals R) 
- Sultanate of Oman: The Glorious Fifteenth National Day Medal (1970-1985)

The silver medals are official replacement issues with letter 'R' indented on the rims 

The me...  read more

Code: 25848

British South Africa Company 1890-97. With 'Rhodesia 1896' reverse (Troopr H A C Hurrell Gwelo Vol)

The recipient, Henry 'Harry' Allen Conolly Hurrell, held the rank of Trooper, while serving with the 'Gwelo Volunteers Corps'

The image with an officer wearing the uniform of the Gwelo Volunteer Corps, shows the recipients eldest brother Major William Hurrell, a veteran of the South African campaign against the Gaikas and Zulu's in 1879 (Frontier Light Horse), sometime of the Gwe...  read more

Code: 25827

Indian General Service Medal. GV 2nd issue with clasp 'Burma 1930-32' (908. Havr. Bagh Khan, 3-16 Punjab R.)

The recipient was by ethnicity and faith a Punjabi Mussalman soldier serving with the 3rd Battalion 16th Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army

The recipients low 3 x digit regimental number indicates a soldier who had enlisted or was mustered into the 3rd Battalion 16th Punjab Regiment circa 1922, at the time of creation of the multi-battalion 16th Punjab Regiment, (a.k.a. S...  read more

Code: 25810

A 'Rifle Brigade' Officer & Veteran of the Crimea and Indian Mutiny who died at Mussoorie in the 'Himalayan Hills' in 1865: Lieutenant & Adjutant George Rogers, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade

- Crimea Medal 1854-56. Bars 'Alma' & 'Sebastopol' (Quartr. Mastr. G. Rogers 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade)  
- Indian Mutiny Medal 1857-59, With clasp 'Lucknow' (Qr. Mr. G. Rogers. 2nd Bn. Rifle Bde.)
- Turkey (Ottoman Empire): Crimea Medal 1855. British 'Union Flag' reverse issue

The British Crimea medal with contemporary engraved naming & the Turkish medal fitted with...  read more

Code: 25720

An unusual pair of Long Service medals for service in Simla, the Summer-Capital, of British India: Captain Thomas George Sparkes, Army Service Corps, late Simla Volunteer Rifles, Office of the Adjutant General's Office in India, & Royal Horse Artillery

- Army LS&GC Medal. Victorian issue (Condr. F. G. Sparkes. Office of the A.G. in India)
- Volunteer Long Service Medal (India & Colonies). EDVII issue (Volr. F. G. Sparkes. Simla Volr. Rifles.)

Medals verification: Medal rolls for the award of the Army LS&GC Medal awarded in India are not accessible on-line, however the recipients obituary refers to the recipient being awa...  read more

Code: 25719