Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Captain T. H. Gunnell, Royal Army Service Corps

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, 5th Class breast badge with swords, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, some repair to blue enamel crown pendilia, very fine (2) £280-320

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

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Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 5th Class London Gazette 26 February 1920.

Thomas Henry Gunnell was born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire on 15 March 1884. A Farmer and Motor Engineer by occupation and a long standing member of the 3rd (Volunteer Battalion) Cambridgeshire Regiment, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 8 November 1916 (London Gazette 28 December 1916). Entering the Salonika theatre of war in April 1917, he was posted to the 819 M.T. Company, A.S.C. on attachment to the Serbian Army. As a Temporary Lieutenant in the A.S.C. he was awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. He was ranked as an Acting Captain, March 1918-May 1919. In 1929 he was found guilty of fraudulent conversion of property and sentenced to three months imprisonment. With copied service papers, gazette extracts and m.i.c. Entitled to a Victory Medal.