The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment

Five: Company Quartermaster Sergeant J. H. Thornton, Gloucestershire Regiment, later Army Ordnance Corps and Machine Gun Corps

1914-15 Star (10548 Sjt. -A.C.Q.M. Sjt.- J. H. Thornton. Glouc. R.); British War and Victory Medals (10548 C. Sjt. J. H. Thornton. Glouc. R.); Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sergt. Joseph H. Thornton) the last heavily polished and worn, this fair; the trio very fine (5) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment.

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Joseph H. Thornton attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment and served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre of War from 1 August 1915. He subsequently transferred to the Army Ordnance Corps and then to the Machine Gun Corps, and was discharged on 26 April 1920.

Sold with copied research.