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Auction: 14003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 299

Five: Lieutenant-Conductor A.A. Inward, Military Works Service, Indian Army, Late Royal Engineers
India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., two clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (22694 Sergt. A.A. Inward. R.E.); 1914 Star, with Bar (Sub-Condr. A.A. Inward. M.W.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (S-C. A.A. Inward. M.W.S.); Army Long Service & G.C., E.VII.R. (Sergt. A.A. Inward M.W. Service), lacquered, nearly extremely fine (5)

M.I.D. London Gazette 1.1.1916 Sub-Conductor A.A. Inward, Military Works Service
'For gallant and distinguished services in the Field'

Lieutenant-Conductor Albert Arthur Inward, born Birmingham, November 1871, the son of Corporal Thomas Inward, Royal Engineers; enlisted in the Royal Engineers, 1889, and served with the 2nd Division Staff during the Tirah Expeditionary Force, attached to the Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners; subsequently transferred to the Military Works Service and advanced Sub-Conductor; on the outbreak of the Great War embarked for France with the Headquarters Staff, 7th (Meerut) Division, Indian Corps, and landed at Marseilles on the 12.10.1914 (Mentioned in Despatches). After the end of the War appointed Assistant Commissary, Indian Army, with the rank of Lieutenant-Conductor, 29.8.1922; returned to England, June 1924; died at home at Ilford, Essex, 7.11.1952.

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