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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 314

(x) Five: 2nd Lieutenant F. Moseley, Special Constabulary, late Royal Field Artillery, who received a gunshot wound to the wrist in the closing stages of the Great War

1914-15 Star (25619 Sjt. F. Moseley. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. F. Moseley.); Defence Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary Faithful Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Frank Moseley), good very fine (5)

Frank Moseley was born on 13 July 1890 at Barlow, a small village located three kilometres to the north-west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of caretaker Henry Thomas Moseley and Clara Ellen Dale. Educated at the Church School, Hasland, Moseley enlisted at Preston as a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery on 7 September 1914. Promoted Bombardier on 23 June 1915 and Corporal on 13 September 1915 whilst attached to 'D' Battery, 172 Brigade, Moseley was appointed Sergeant and posted to France on 27 November 1915.

Surviving the initial carnage of the Somme, Moseley was transferred to 153 Brigade on 12 September 1916 where he clearly caught the eye of his superiors. Posted from Rouen to Royal Artillery Cadet School at Exeter in the summer of 1917, Moseley was discharged to a commission on 5 January 1918. He returned to the Western Front and was wounded in action on 1 October 1918 whilst serving with 'C' Battery, 187 Brigade. The gunshot wound to the left wrist resulted in evacuation across the Channel and a spell at the 3rd London General Hospital. Upon recovery he returned home to Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottingham, and applied to the War Office for a wound gratuity on 4 January 1919. It is unclear whether this was successful. Moseley later married Minnie Thickett and set up home in the Chesterfield area, where he later died in April 1959; sold with copied officer service papers.


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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£40