Four: G. E. Bryant, British Red Cross

1914-15 Star (G. E. Bryant. B.R.C.S. & O.S.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (G. E. Bryant. B.R.C. & St. J.J.); Serbia, Kingdom, Order of St. Sava, Fourth Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, Bishop with red robes, silver mark to suspension ring, lacking rosette on riband; very fine and better (4) £240-£280

Gilbert Ernest Bryant, a scion of the Bryant family behind Bryant and May Matches, was born in Surbiton on 26 January 1878, and following the outbreak of the Great War volunteered as a searcher of the Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau with the British Red Cross, serving at Mudros from 8 October 1915. He moved to Salonika in February 1916 and served there until October 1917. He was appointed Stores Officer in June 1916 and served in that capacity until 31 October 1917, rendering useful service despite ill health after the Great Fire of 18 August 1917, which destroyed two thirds of the city. For his services he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 21 July 1917) and was awarded the Serbian Order of St. Sava Fourth Class (London Gazette 7 February 1922). He died in Wandsworth, London, on 23 March 1965.

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