Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Staff Serjeant S. Gillard, Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Natal, Transvaal (9396 Corl., A.S.C.) suspension damaged and very slack; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (9396 Serjt., A.S.C.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (S2SR-03735 S. Sjt., A.S.C.) edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £140-180

Samuel Gillard was born in Broadclyst, near Exeter, Devon. He attested for the A.S.C. at Aldershot on 4 June 1890, aged 18 years, 3 months. He served overseas in South Africa, September 1899-January 1903 and Jamaica, October 1904-December 1907. Attaining the rank of Staff Serjeant in July 1906, he took his discharge in June 1911. With the onset of the Great War he re-attested at Aldershot on 13 April 1915 and was re-appointed a Staff Serjeant in the A.S.C. Staff Serjeant Samuel Gillard, A.S.C., entered France on 25 August 1915. Entitled to the 1914-15 Star trio of medals. Later transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve. He died of heart failure on 28 September 1941. With copied service papers, m.i.c. and death certificate.