Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of six awarded to Sergeant A. J. Thomas, Military Mounted Police, late 2nd Life Guards

Military Medal, G.V.R. (675 Cpl. A. J. Thomas . M.M. P.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Wittebergen, Driefontein (2039 Tr: J. Thomas, 2: L-Gds:) unofficial rivets between fourth and fifth clasps; 1914 Star (675 L.Cpl. A. J. Thomas. M.M.P.); British War and Victory Medals (675 A. Sjt. A. J. Thomas. M.M.P.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (675 Sjt. A. J. Thomas. M.M.P.) nearly very fine and better (6) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to The Military Police.

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M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916.

A. J. Thomas was born in Plymouth in 1875 and attested for the 2nd Life Guards in October 1896, having previously served in the Devonshire Militia Artillery. He served with the Life Guards in South Africa from December 1899 until November 1900, before transferring to the Military Mounted Police on the 23 May 1906. He served with the M.M.P. in Egypt from September 1908 until March 1913, and then during the Great War with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 15 August 1914 (entitled to clasp to 1914 Star). Awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in France in 1916, he transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve in October 1919.