Four: Company Quartermaster Serjeant M. T. Phillips, South Wales Borderers, awarded the M.S.M. for the Balkans

1914-15 Star (17413 Sjt., S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (17413 C. Sjt., S. Wales Bord.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (8.17413 C.Q.M. Sjt., 8/S. Wales Bord.); together with Football Prize Medals (2), gold and silver, reverse inscribed, ‘1916-17 G.H.Q. B.S.F. M. T. Phillips’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1916; another, silver-gilt with painted porcelain centre, reverse inscribed, ‘Sergt. Phillips, 1917, Karaissi & District Salonica League (Divn. I) Champions, 3rd Echelon F.C. G.H.Q. B.S.F.’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1917, nearly extremely fine (5)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Bruce C Cazel Collection of British Campaign Awards.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Forces in the Balkans’.

Serjeant Melville T. Phillips, South Wales Borderers, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 September 1915. In November the same year he was posted to Salonika. Phillips was awarded the M.S.M. for his services in the Balkans. Transferred to Army Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 7 February 1919. With copied m.i.c.