Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue (C.Sjt. S. Foot, Rif. Brig.) extremely fine £200-250

M.S.M. AO 237 of 1936.

Samuel Foot was born in July 1863 at Donhead St Mary. He served in the Wiltshire Regiment, 1883-85, and in the Rifle Brigade, 1885-1904, and saw service in India and Burma. He died on 25 May 1938, aged 74. A pair of medals is known to this man comprising I.G.S. 1854 (Burma 1887-89 and Burma 1889-92, but erased) and L.S. & G.C. (Edward VII, correctly named) mounted as worn but missing the M.S.M. (Ref McInnes).