Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain T. W. Snow, M.C., Royal Field Artillery

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. W. Snow) very fine and better (2) £80-120

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Thomas William Snow was born on 30 January 1897, the son of William and Margaret Emily Snow, of the Craig Preparatory School, Windermere, and was educated at St. Edwards School, Oxford, where he was a Scholar, Prefect, and a member of both the 1st XV and 1st XI. He was a Platoon Sergeant of the St. Edward's School Contingent, Junior Division, Officers Training Corps, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 16th (Westminster) Battalion London Regiment on 17 March 1915. He transferred to the 4th West Lancashire (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on 20 June 1915; was promoted Lieutenant on 1 June 1916; and was awarded the Military Cross. He relinquished his commission on 30 September 1921, retaining the rank of Captain.
After the War he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently became a School Master, teaching at Knox Grammar School, Wahroonga, Australia (1924-26); The Craig Preparatory School, Windermere (1927-32), Bedford School (1932-35) and latterly as Headmaster of Bedford Preparatory School (1935-39). He served during the Second World War in the Royal Observer Corps, Bedford, from 1942-43, and died in Gloucestershire in 1977.