Three: Sergeant W. G. C. Roberts, Royal Army Veterinary Corps

British War and Victory Medals (SE-12495 Sjt. W. G. Roberts. A.V.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (SE-12495 Sjt. W. G. C. Roberts. R.A.V.C.); together with the recipient’s two card identity tags; and a small prize medal, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1907) with gold centres, engraved ‘Woodford & District League Div. II. Western Secn. Leyton Manor F.C. W. C. Roberts’, good very fine (4) £160-£200

M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

William Gill Crosby Roberts was born in 1883 and attested for the Army Veterinary Corps, serving with them during the Great War on the Western Front. Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, he transferred to the Reserve on 24 May 1919.

Sold together with the recipient’s Certificate of Transfer to the Reserve; and Record Office enclosure for the Great War Medals, in OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mr. W. G. C. Roberts, 97 Uplands Road, Crouch End, London N8’.