Orders, Decorations and Medals

A post-war B.E.M. group of six awarded to Quarter-Master Sergeant P. Condon, Royal Welch Regiment, late Royal Irish Regiment, afterwards a long-served member of staff at Somerset House

British Empire Medal, (Civil) E.II.R. (Philip Condon); 1914-15 Star (10148 Pte. P. Condon, R. Ir. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (10148 C. Sjt. P. Condon, R. Ir. Regt.); Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (109236 C.Q.M. Sjt. P. Condon, R.W. Fus.), the Great War awards with contact wear and polished, fine, the remainder very fine or better (6) £200-250

B.E.M. London Gazette 2 January 1956.

Philip Condon, who landed in France as a Private in the Royal Irish Regiment on 19 December 1914, ‘served for 21 years as a regular soldier, becoming Q.M.S. in the Royal Welch Regiment’.

He was awarded the B.E.M. for his services as an Office Keeper at the Board of Inland Revenue at Somerset House, ‘where he had charge of a staff of 570, including messengers, porters and attendants’; sold with copied newspaper feature.