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Auction: 22102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction VI - e-Auction
Lot: 519

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R (16 B.Q.M.Sgt. W. Mosley. 1st Monmouth: R.G.A.V.)

William Mosley was born at Monmouth in 1862. He worked as a Coalmine Overman (below ground). Serving with the Monmouth Royal Garrison Artillery he was mentioned in the History of Monmouth Volunteer Artillery (1958) though his name is misspelled ‘Moseley’. Later promoted Battery Sergeant Major of No.2 (Risca) Battery around 1908, the same year that the unit joined 4th Welsh brigade Royal Field Artillery. Mosley’s son Arthur served with the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War and he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal; sold together with copied research including census data, M.I.C. and London Gazette entries for his son along with a copy of the D.C.M. citation and handwritten notes on the recipient.

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£90

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