Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.S.M. to Quarter Master Serjeant H. J. Stark, Royal Army Medical Corps

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (36555 Q.M. Sjt., No.40 F.A., R.A.M.C.) minor contact marks, very fine £120-160

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 16 August 1917. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in the Field during the present war’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 [Mesopotamia]. ‘Stark, 36555 Q.M.S. (A./C.S.M.) H. J. [North Persian Force]’.

The 40th Field Ambulance R.A.M.C. landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 18 October 1915 and then from there went on to Mesopotamia., participating in the attempted relief of Kut and entering Baghdad on 11 March 1917. Sold with a copy of the war movements of the 40th F.A.