Lot Archive

Download Images

Lot

№ 710

.

11 December 2019

Hammer Price:
£160

Meritorious Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (6191656 W.O. Cl. 2. T. W. F. Graham, RWK.) extremely fine £200-£240

Thomas William Frederick Graham was born in Wandsworth, London, on 9 August 1896, and served during the Great War with the 15th London Regiment from 13 March 1915 until being demobilised on 10 March 1919. He subsequently attested for the Middlesex Regiment on 14 July 1919, and served with them in Gibraltar and Egypt, before transferring to the Royal West Kent Regiment on 29 July 1922. He served with them in India and Palestine, was advanced Warrant Officer Class II on 15 February 1937, and was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1937. He saw further service during the Second World War in Persia and Iraq, and transferred to Class ‘Z’ Royal Army Reserve on 19 June 1945. He was finally discharged on 10 February 1954. He died as an In Pensioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on 17 October 1964.

Sold with copied research.