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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 404

(x) A Great War M.S.M. awarded to Acting Quartermaster-Sergeant M. Livesey, Army Service Corps, who also earned a 'mention' and died on the Western Front on 5 October 1918

Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (SS-1300 A.S.Q.M. Sjt: M. Livesey. A.S.C.), nearly extremely fine

M.S.M. London Gazette 18 October 1916:

'In recognition of valuable services rendered during the present war.'

Montague George Charles Helps Livesey was born at Millhouse, Taplow, Eton on 16 March 1886, the son of Sir Joseph Montague Livesey . A.Inst.C.E.,, A.I.M.E., F.S.A, of Sturton Hall, near Horncastle, Lincolnshire who died on 14 June 1902 was the Lord of the Manor. The first Sturton Hall is a Grade II listed ruin. The house was deserted in 1810 when the Livesey family bought the manor and built a new Hall in Sturton Park.

Young Montague was educated at Highfield School, Chertsey. He served in the ranks of the Army Service Corps during the Great War - unlike the rest of his family - in France from 10 May 1915. He was Mentioned in Field Marshal French's Despatch of 15 October 1915 (London Gazette 1 January 1916) and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on 18 October 1916, this being the First Gazetting of the newly-established immediate M.S.M. award, whilst serving as Acting Staff Quarter Master Sergeant. He died as a Temporary Staff Sergeant-Major on the Western Front on 5 October 1918 of pneumonia, contracted on active service whilst attached 9th Division Headquarters, just after the Fifth Battle of Ypres (28 September - 2 October) and is buried in the Terlincthun British Cemetery in Wimille, France. His medals were sent to his wife Margaret Livesey at 67 Bridge Road, East Molsey, Surrey; sold together with copied research.


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£180

Starting price
£60