Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (240023 Sjt. S. Carr, 5/North’d. Fus.) good very fine £100-140

M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war.’ ‘240023 Sjt. S. Carr, North’d. Fus. (Newcastle-on-Tyne).’

Corporal Stanley Carr, Northumberland Fusiliers entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 April 1915. As a Serjeant with the 5th Battalion he earned the M.S.M. Later discharged as a Warrant Officer Class 2. With copied gazette extracts and m.i.c.