Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Mesopotamia operations M.S.M. group of three awarded to 2nd Lieutenant G. H. Dobson, Indian Army, late Hampshire Regiment

British War Medal 1914-20 (2(sic) W.O. Cl. I, Hamps. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (280001 R.S. Mjr., 6/Hamps. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (280001 W.O. Cl. I, 6-Hamps. R.), this last with officially corrected number, good very fine or better (3) £200-250

George Ernest Dobson, a native of Southsea, entered the Mesopotamia theatre of operations in September 1917, while serving as a Company Sergeant in the 6th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. He was subsequently awarded the M.S.M. ‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Mesopotamia’ (London Gazette 22 September 1919 refers), and was commissioned into the Supply and Transport Corps, Indian Army, in November 1918. The announcement of his T.F.E.M. appeared in A.O. 363 of 1921, and he was also awarded the Territorial Force War Medal 1914-18.