Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Temporary Warrant Officer Class 1 T. Barnshaw, Army Service Corps

British War and Victory Medals (SS-19254 T.W.O. Cl. 1, A.S.C.); Serbia, Medal for Zealous Service, gilt metal, mounted as worn, extremely fine (3) £220-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of British Groups with Foreign Awards.

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Serbia, Gold Medal for Zealous Service London Gazette 3 October 1917.

Thomas Barnshaw of 41 Nelson Street, Crewe, a Political Agent by occupation, attested for the Army Service Corps at Crewe on 4 October 1915. Subsequently served with the Adriatic Mission, he was employed as Chief Supply Clerk, Albania and Salonika with the rank of Temporary Warrant Officer Class 1. He was discharged from the A.S.C. on 25 June 1917 due to sickness, for which he was awarded the Silver War Badge. For his wartime services to Serbia he was awarded the Gold Medal for Zealous Service. In 1932 he was living at ‘Bembridge’, Holland Road, Clacton-on-Sea.

With copied service papers, gazette and roll extracts and m.i.c. Also with a copied newspaper cutting (The Evening News, 20 July 1932) which relates to Barnshaw receiving the medal by post some 15 years after its award. The newspaper referring to it as the ‘gold medal of the Order of St. Sava’.