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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 594

(x) A post-war M.S.M. group of six awarded to Regimental Sergeant-Major J. H. Garside, King's Royal Rifle Corps

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (6844965 W.O. Cl. 2 J. Garside, K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R. (6844965 W.O. Cl. 1 J. Garside, K.R.R.C.), mounted court-style as worn, together with a set of related miniature dress medals, contact wear, very fine or better (12)


Joseph Henry Garside was born at Rochdale, Lancashire on 10 February 1913 and enlisted in the K.R.R.C. in November 1932. Having then served in India and Burma in the 1st Battalion in the late 1930s, he was appointed a Warrant Officer Class 2 in 1940 and transferred to the 10th Battalion in the following year; his subsequent service in North-West Europe in the period June-August 1944 is believed to have been with the 2nd Battalion.

Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in November 1950, Garside became R.S.M. of the 1st Battalion in the summer of 1955 and was still serving on the formation of the Royal Green Jackets in November 1958. He was finally discharged in February 1967 and died at Winchester in October 1990; above details courtesy of the Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, Winchester.


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