Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Acting Corporal W. McArthur, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914 Star, with clasp (3741 Pte. W. McArthur, R.A.M.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (3741 Pte. (A. Cpl.) W. McArthur, R.A.M.C.), very fine or better (2) £180-220

William McArthur first entered the French theatre of war as a Private in No. 15 Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C., on 20 August 1914. Subsequently appointed an Acting Corporal, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for ‘valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders (London Gazette 18 January 1919 refers).

Sold with the recipient’s original New Testament, an active service edition with Lord Roberts’ message, the inside with ink inscription, ‘3741 Wm. McArthur, 15th Field Amb., B.E.F.’, and another similar, presented by the Naval and Military Bible Society of Scotland, with ink inscription, ‘Wm. McArthur, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Hospital, Dublin, April 1909.’