Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain P. S. Carden, Army Service Corps, late Sussex Yeomanry, who was Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War

1914-15 Star (Lieut. P. S. Carden. A.S.C.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (211 Cpl. P. S. Carden. Sussex Yeo.); together with a County of Sussex Rifle Association Prize Medal, bronze and enamel, the obverse with the Sussex coat of arms and crossed rifles, the reverse engraved ‘C. of Sx. R.A. Corpl. P. S. Carden Sx Yeo Team Lewis Cup 1909’, good very fine (3) £120-£160

Philip Sidney Carden, a native of Brighton, served with the Sussex Yeomanry and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 107 of April 1912. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned into the Army Service Corps on 17 September 1914, and as a Temporary Captain he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 29 May 1917).

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