Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Quartermaster Sergeant A. T. Moss, Royal Engineers, who was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded an Immediate Meritorious Service Medal

British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaves (175087 W.O. Cl. 2. A. T. Moss. R.E.); Defence Medal; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (WR-256657 Q.M. Sjt. A. T. Moss. R.F.A. [sic]); France, Third Republic, Medaille Militaire, silver and enamel, mounted court-style for display, significant enamel damage to the French MM, otherwise generally nearly very fine (5) £160-£200

M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919: WR/256657 Q.M. Sjt. Moss, A. T., Royal Engineers
‘In recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 May 1918 (France).

French Medaille Militaire London Gazette 7 June 1919.

Alfred Thomas Moss, a native of Derby, attested for the Royal Engineers and served initially with the 258th Tunnelling Company during the Great War on the Western Front. Subsequently assigned an War Reserve number (presumably as a result of having been severely wounded in France and returned to England for convalescence), he was posted to the 10th Light Railway Company, R.E., and then to the 6th Railway Survey and Reconnaissance Section, R.E. For his services with this latter unit he was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded an Immediate Meritorious Service Medal, as well as being further honoured by the French authorities.

Note: Moss seems to have served his entire military career with the Royal Engineers; it is presumably solely due to a clerical error that his M.S.M. is named to the R.F.A.

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