Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.S.M. to Acting Regimental Serjeant-Major T. Dowson, Royal Engineers

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (WR-303564 Sjt.-A.R.S. Mjr., R.E.) minor contact marks, very fine £100-140

M.S.M. London Gazette 22 September 1919. ‘WR/303564 Sjt. (A./R./S.M.) Dowson, T., I.W.T. (Leeds)’. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Mesopotamia’.

M.I.D. (2) London Gazette 21 February 1919 (Mesopotamia) and 5 June 1919 (Mesopotamia).

I.W.T. = Inland Water Transport.