Orders, Decorations and Medals

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (No.1419 Colour Sergeant G. W. Griffiths.) engraved naming, minor edge bruise, good very fine, scarce £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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G. W. Griffiths lived in British Honduras. He served in the Volunteers and in 1907 as a Corporal he took part in the expedition to Stann Creek to assist the civil authorities in restoring order following a strike and associated disturbances caused by Jamaican and other railway construction workers. The volunteers were called out on 18 June 1907 and Griffiths was one of the 2 officers and 100 men selected for the expedition. Arriving at the scene, order was soon restored and the Volunteers returned to Belize on 21 June.

Colour Sergeant Griffiths was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. Medal in 1919, the award being published in the British Honduras Government Gazette of 24 May 1919. Sold with copied gazette extract and extract from A Short History of the Volunteer Forces of British Honduras, by D. N. A. Fairweather. In The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, by J. M. A. Tamplin, a total of 48 medals are recorded for the colony.