Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘France’ M.S.M. to Battery Serjeant-Major J. E. Drew, Royal Field Artillery

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (3934 B.S. Mjr., D.17/Bde., R.F.A.) edge bruise and some contact marks, very fine £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Meritorious Service Medals.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present war’.

Together with an extract from the War Office records which reads, ‘B.S.M. J. Drew, D17 Bde. 29th Division. Service Gallipoli, Egypt, Flanders, M.S.M. awarded “For coolness, determination and initiative Flanders 1917-18, particularly Cambrai 1917”’. Copied m.i.c. indicates Drew entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 November 1914 as a Sergeant with the 11th Brigade Royal Field Artillery.