Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Acting Warrant Officer Class II A. G. Lammas, Northamptonshire Regiment, late Army Gym Staff

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (50780 A.W.O. Cl. II, North’n. R.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (102 A.C.S. Mjr. Instr., A. Gym Staff); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Sjt. Instr., Gym St.) mounted as worn, extremely fine, scarce (4) £250-300

M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917. ‘102 A./C.S.M. Instr., A. Gym Staff’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 27 January 1917.

Archibald Lammas was born in Stepney, Middlesex. He enlisted into the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Reading on 11 May 1889, aged 18 years. He completed 21 years with the Royal Berkshire Regiment, serving as a Physical Instructor. After the outbreak of war, Lammas volunteered for service and was appointed a Warrant Officer in the Northamptonshire Regiment, entering France on 29 February 1916. As a member of the Army Gym Staff he was mentioned in despatches and awarded an ‘immediate’ M.S.M. for his wartime services - one of possibly 72 immediate Meritorious Service Medals to the unit.

With copied m.i.c. and M.S.M. gazette extract.