Orders, Decorations and Medals

Eight: Company Sergeant-Major J. Irwin, Durham Light Infantry, late York & Lancaster Regiment, awarded the M.S.M. for North Russia

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7125 Corpl., Vol. Coy. Y. & L. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (277512 W.O. Cl. 2, Durh. L.I.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-18 (277512 W.O. Cl. II, Durh. L.I.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue (John Irwin); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (277512 C.S. Mjr., 7/Durh. L.I.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R., with Second Award Bar (341 Sjt., 5/Y. & L. Regt.); together with a Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (2170 Pte. J. G. Irwin, 2nd V.B. Border Regt.) impressed naming, fine and better (9) £450-550

M.S.M. London Gazette 22 January 1920. ‘.... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Forces in North Russia - Archangel Command’.