Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Acting Sergeant-Major G. Martin, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (11524 Pte., R.A.M.C.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (11524 Pte., R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (30629 S-Sjt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (30629 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, no clasp (11524 Pte., R.A.M.C. Soudan 1898); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (30629 S. Sjt-A.S. Mjr., 70/F.A. R.A.M.C.) slight contact marks and edge bruising, very fine and better (7) £400-460

George Martin was born in Mottingham, Lewisham, Kent. A Painter by occupation and a member of the Militia Medical Staff Corps, he attested for the Medical Staff Corps at London on 4 August 1897, aged 20 years, 8 months. Served with the M.S.C. and R.A.M.C. in Egypt, July-October 1898; Africa, January-September 1900 and Jamaica, December 1900-January 1904. Transferred to the Army Reserve in February 1905 and discharged on 3 July 1909. Later served with the R.A.M.C. in the Great War and was awarded the M.S.M. With copied service papers.