Eight: Warrant Officer E. A. Etheridge, Army Service Corps, late Grenadier Guards

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5441 Pte. E. Etheridge. 1/Gren: Gds:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Belfast (5441 Pte. E. A. Etherage, Gren: Gds:); 1914-15 Star (19849 Pte. E. A. Etheridge. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (19849 W.O.Cl.2. E. A. Etheridge. A.S.C.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police, bronze (P.C. A. Etherage. N. Div.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (SS-19849 A. Sjt: E. Etheridge. A.S.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Khartoum (Pte. E. Etherage. Gren. Gds.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine or better (8) £300-£400

Ernest Arthur Etherage/Etheridge was born at Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire, and enlisted into the Grenadier Guards at Bristol on 19 August 1895, aged 19 years 6 months, a labourer by trade. He served abroad at Gibraltar from September 1897 to July 1898, then in Egypt until October 1898, and in South Africa from October 1899 to January 1901, including the Nile Expedition of 1898 and the war in South Africa 1899-1901. He was discharged medically unfit for further service on 31 December 1903, although in the period 1901-03 he also served as a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police. The outbreak of war in 1914 saw him registered as a Class 2 National Reservist with the Gloucester Territorial Force Association. He rejoined the army on 13 October 1915, as a Private in the Army Service Corps, proceeding to France on 7 November 1915. As a ‘Supply Specials and Labour’ recruit he was attached to 23rd Company Labour Corps, becoming an Acting Sergeant and awarded the M.S.M. for services in France (London Gazette 1 January 1918 refers). He was discharged on 9 March 1919.

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