Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant Colonel G. A. Rosser, Royal Tank Corps, formerly Hampshire Regiment, and Machine Gun Corps

1914-15 Star (Capt., Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Malabar 1921-22, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt., R. Tank C.) the Great war trio probably fire damaged, therefore fine, otherwise very fine and the Malabar clasp rare to unit (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Tank Corps formed by the late Bill Green.

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Despatches twice London Gazette 5 August 1915 (Gallipoli) and 14 August 1917 (Mesopotamia).

Lieutenant Colonel George Archibald Rosser was born in March 1890. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment in 1909 ; promoted Lieutenant, November 1911; Captain, April 1915; Acting Major, Machine Gun Corps, September 1916 to February 1918; Temporary Major, Machine Gun Corps, February 1918 to April 1921; Tank Corps, July 1921 to August 1923; Lieutenant Colonel, April 1934.

His postings included, Assistant Instructor, M.G.C. Training Centre, February 1916 to September 1916; Gallipoli, 25 April 1915 to 4 June 1915; Egyptian Expeditionary Force, May 1918 to October 1918; Mesopotamia, October 1916 to March 1918; and Malabar and Waziristan 1921 to 1924.