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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 234

(x) A Great War M.S.M. group of four awarded to Acting Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant A. T. Griffiths, Royal Berkshire Regiment

1914-15 Star (17019 Sjt A. T. Griffths. R. Berks: R.); British War and Victory Medals (17019 Sjt. A. T. Griffiths. R. Berks. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (17019 Sjt A. T. Griffiths. 5/R. Berks: R.), contact marks, nearly very fine (4)

M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Arthur Thomas Griffiths was born at St. Johns, Reading, Berkshire in 1874. Having joined the 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (TF) on 1 April 1908, he was promoted Sergeant on 24 July 1908. On the outbreak of the Great War Griffiths enlisted at Aldershot on 9 March 1915 in the 5th Battalion and was appointed Sergeant Cook. He served in France from 30 May 1915 and was soon appointed Acting Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant, being transferred to the Reserve on 18 July 1910; his Service Record also make reference to a Territorial Efficiency Decoration.

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£260

Starting price
£110