Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Staff Serjeant A. E. Hughes, Royal Army Medical Corps, awarded the M.S.M. for service in Mesopotamia

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oakleaf (23542 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.) ‘Victory’ with correction to unit; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (23542 S-Sgt., R.A.M.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (23542 Sjt.-A. S. Sjt., No. 40 G. Hpl. R.A.M.C.); Defence Medal, unnamed, nearly very fine (5) £300-350

M.S.M. London Gazette 15 October 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette (Mesopotamia) 12 March 1918.

Staff Serjeant Albert E. Hughes, R.A.M.C. from Portmadoc, was awarded the M.S.M. for service with No. 40 General Hospital in Mesopotamia. His address after the war was ‘10 Windmill Street, West Croydon, Surrey’.

With a fine portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform at the time of the Great War (card mount damaged) and a smaller photograph of the recipient in later life. With some copied research.

Also with an intriguing locally made, carved and hinged, wooden book rest(?), bearing the inscription, ‘Mespot 1916 17 18’ and ‘Bhagit Ram S. Sgt. Hughes.’