Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Company Sergeant Major George Ford, Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (12140 Dvr., A.S.C.); 1914 Star, with copy clasp (T-12140 C.Q.M. Sjt., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T-12140 T.W.O. Cl.1., A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., type 1 (T-12140 C.S. Mjr., A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service, G.V.R. (T-12140 T.S.S. Mjr., R.A.S.C.) very fine and better (6)
£200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Fine Collection of Medals to 'Old Contemptibles' formed by Major Bob Keay.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919 (R.A.S.C., attached 53rd Field Ambulance).

George Ford was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1877 and enlisted into the Army Service Corps in May 1895. He served in South Africa during the Boer War from September 1899 to June 1900 and during the Great War served in France and Flanders with No. 1 Company, 6th Divisional Train, R.A.S.C. from 8 September 1914, being discharged in May 1919 on the termination of his second period of engagement. Sold with copy service papers and m.i.c.