Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private C. T. Townsend, Royal Army Service Corps

British War and Victory Medals (T4-198617 Pte., A.S.C.); Serbia, Medal for Zeal, silvered base metal, unnamed, good very fine (3) £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps.

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Serbia, Silver Medal for Zealous Service London Gazette 26 February 1920. ‘T4/198617 Lance-Corporal Cecil Troughton Townsend, 689th Mechanical Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps (Hull).’

Immediately after the war Townsend lived at ‘147 Craven Street, Holderness Road, Hull’; then later at ‘71 New Burlington Road, Bridlington’, With two (repaired) documents re. the award of the Serbian medal; damaged card box of issue for the British War and Victory Medals and registered envelope.