Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Surgeon-Major A. P. Arnold, Durham Light Infantry

Territorial Decoration, E.VII.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1908, lacks brooch bar; Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (Surgeon Major, 5/V.B. Durham L.I.) very fine (2) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Territoral Decoration London Gazette 2 April 1909.

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal Army Order 189/1906, dated 1 August 1906.

A. P. Arnold served in the 5th Volunteer Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Appointed Surgeon-Captain in November 1891 and promoted to Surgeon-Major in August 1902. In April 1908 the 5th Volunteer Battalion became the 9th Battalion in the Territorial Force. Major Arnold was a representative member of the Durham Territorial Association from April 1908 - representing Gateshead County Borough. 50 Edward VII Volunteer Force Long Service Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion D.L.I. - 6 to officers, only one to a Surgeon-Major.